Texas Fauna Project

Whooping Crane

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Based in Austin, Stuart Henry was a leading environmental attorney in Texas known for representing landowners and public interest groups on conservation cases. He was particularly active in water-related disputes, including Sierra v. Babbit, the controversy involving protection of endangered species reliant on the Edwards Aquifer spring flows. Here he discusses the heavy dependence of many Texas streams, including the Guadalupe (which feeds Aransas Bay, winter home of the whooping crane), on groundwater supplies.