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Upcoming Events

June 7:

Hunt - Streamside Landowner Workshop: Understanding Riparian Areas - Details

 

June 7-9:

Wimberly - Blue Hole Concerts for the Park -Details

Blanco - Join us at the Blanco Lavender Festival -Details

 

June 8:

Vanderpool - Join HCA for Better Lights for Starry Nights at Lost Maples State Natural Area - Learn how you can help "Bring Back the Milky Way" and stay for some star gazing! - Details

 

June 9: 

Medina - Join HCA for Better Lights for Starry Nights- Learn how you can help "Bring Back the Milky Way" and do some star gazing! - Details

 

June 15: 

Cedar Park - Texas rainwater harvesting at a crossroads - a town hall meeting - Details

 

June 18: 

San Antonio - Sierra Club meeting, "The Battle for the Warbler" - Details

 

June 21: 

San Antonio - Edwards Aquifer Authority presents: Groundwater - Texas Style - Details 

Cedar Park - Texas rainwater harvesting at a crossroads - a town hall meeting - Details

Spring Outlets

These species are entirely restricted to the immediate vicinity of springs. The riffle beetle, an endangered species, is found only near the spring opening where  aquifer water with a constant temperature upwells to the surface.

Source: R. Gibson, USFW

Several of these species have adapted body parts that allow them to work into tiny spaces in the rock crevices or root mats to graze.

Source: R. Gibson, USF

Source: R. Gibson, USFW

 

Others have longer legs and antennae to locate food and walk on soft silt.

Source: R. Gibson, USF

Source: R. Gibson, USFW

 

 

Webpage authored by Thomas Ryan, M.S., Aquatic Resources, Texas State University and The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.