Texas Fauna Project

Whooping Crane

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Ilan Levin, an environmental attorney who serves as the Associate Director of the Environmental Integrity Project, worked on behalf of the San Marcos River Foundation in their 2000 filing for instream water rights to help support whooping cranes and other elements of the Aransas Bay system. He recalls that the filing was in part spurred by the regulation of pumping from the Edwards Aquifer, which had pressed water developers to seek more surface water from area streams, such as the San Marcos.