Devils River, photo by TRPA member

River Advocacy

For Clean Rivers

“A whole river is mountain country and hill country and flat country and swamp and delta country, is rock bottom and sand bottom and weed bottom and mud bottom, is blue, green, red, clear, brown, wide, narrow, fast, slow, clean, and filthy water, is all the kinds of trees and grasses and all the breeds of animals and birds and man that pertain and have ever pertained to its changing shores…”

John Graves
Goodbye to a River’

JohnGraves painting
John Graves – Oil by Van Johnson, from a photograph by Wyman Meinzer


For Recreation and River Access

A Philosophy of Public River Recreation, an opinion of Texas Rivers


“Believe me my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

— Ratty to Mole in Kenneth Grahame’s classic novel ‘The Wind in the Willows’

WindintheWillows

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

— Heraclitus of Ephesus

Texas River Blog

Fall 2023 TRPA Newsletter

Extreme heat and extreme drought reduces water levels to record levels in our lakes, rivers and streams. Lower water levels have exposed more trash to be removed. Cleanups have collected 100s of tires so far this year. Read on to find out more.

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