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Big Thicket Reporter, Issue BIG THICKET July–September 2011 Reporter Issue #111 Neighbors Named Preserve Superintendent BONNEY GUIDEBOOK PUBLISHED On Big Thicket Day, the University Douglas Neighbors, a of North Texas Press plans to release 21-year veteran of the The Big Thicket Guidebook: Explor- National Park Service, ing the Backroads and History of has been named Super- Southeast Texas, by Lorraine Bon- intendent of the Big ney. The title is No. 6 in the “Temple Thicket National Pre- Big Thicket Series,” made possible by serve. He replaces Supt. the generosity of the T.L.L. Temple Todd Brindle, who now Foundation. (See insert) is superintendent at The book (with 800+ pages) retails Glen Canyon NRA, Ari- for $29.95 (plus tax) and will be zona. available to BTA members at a 20 For the past 5 years, Supt. Neighbors (at podium) welcomes Senator percent discount. The author will be Neighbors has been the Hutchison during her August visit to BTNP. Also present Big Thicket Day, October 8, superintendent of the pictured, at right, are Andy Jones, Texas Director, for autographs. 738,000-acre Craters The Conservation Fund, and BTA President Cathy Author Lorraine Bonney and her of the Moon National Johnston. [photo by Michael Black] husband the late Orrin Bonney co- Monument and Preserve authored guidebooks on the Grand in south-central Idaho. His NPS career includes Big Bend National Park, Cra- Tetons, Yellowstone, and Wyoming ter Lake National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park and the National mountains. They were founders of Park of American Samoa. In 1989, Neighbors earned a Bachelor of Science the Lone Star Chapter, Sierra Club, degree in wildlife and fi sheries discipline from Texas A&M University. and Orrin was an early Chair of LSC. Neighbors is no stranger to Big Thicket, having served as its chief of Continued, page 3 resources management from 2000-2003. “I am eager to be heading back to the Big Thicket region of Texas and excited to work with the dedicated staff ,” Neighbors said. “I am looking forward to fi nalizing the preserve’s 20-year management plan and working with the many communities sur- BIG THICKET DAY rounding the preserve to help as the plan is implemented. October 8th SEN. HUTCHISON RECEIVES JACKSON CONSERVATION AWARD 9:30 am – 3:00 pm Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and her aides visited Big Thicket August 11, Field Research Station accompanied by eight children. New Supt. Douglas Neighbors and Staff Saratoga, Texas welcomed the group. (see details, page 4) The visit and schedule were arranged by Andy Jones, Texas Director, The Conservation Fund. Leslie DuBey, Chief, Education and Interpretation, arranged a brief tour for the children and made them Junior Rangers. BTA BONNEY GUIDEBOOK used the opportunity to present the R.E. Jackson Conservation Award to available for purchase Continued, page 3 Conservation Outlook The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline will recommend approval to the tures of the Kalamazoo spill clearly president unless there is a huge out- show a large pipeline rupture, so by Bruce R. Drury pouring of opposition. torqueing the fl anges would not have prevented the spill. A schol- The proposed Keystone XL pipeline Keystone XL, which will go from arly paper written by University of still awaits the decision by Presi- northern Alberta, through Montana, Nebraska engineering professor dent Obama concerning a permit South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, John Stansbury charges that Trans- to cross the border from Canada Oklahoma, and Texas to Port Arthur Canada very severely underplayed to the United States. Because the and Houston, has received criti- the dangers to health and environ- project is international, the lead cism from landowners and environ- mental concerns in the “worst case” agency for the National Environ- mentalists, primarily because of its discussion in the EIS. mental Policy Act (NEPA) review perceived threat to the environ- is the Department of State, which ment. The tar sands oil that would Opponents of the Keystone pipeline will ultimately advise the president. go through the pipeline contains have suggested that the tar sand State issued a draft Environmental natural gas condensate and resid- oil could be refi ned in Canada and Impact Study in 2009, but because ual sand and heavy metals It is also marketed as end products, such as of the widespread and loud opposi- heated and under greater pressure gasoline and diesel, to the US and tion to the proposal, a supplemen- than crude oil in regular pipelines. abroad. Already under consider- tal draft EIS was promulgated in It would cross dozens of rivers and ation is an alternative pipeline that April of 2011. Even though State creeks and the extremely impor- would run from central Alberta to required some changes in the specs tant Ogallala and Carrizo-Wilcox the port of Kitimat, British Colum- of the project and TransCanada, the Aquifers. Existing tar sand pipelines bia. Actually, the Enbridge North- owner and builder of the pipeline, have experienced on average more ern Gateway plan is for two pipes— made several voluntary changes than one spill per month, and one a 36 inch line for tar sand oil going said to improve the safety of the break in southern Michigan spewed west and a 20 inch line for natural line, the criticism continues. A third 840,000 gallons of tar sand oil into gas condensate going east. Both EIS issued on August 26 followed the Kalamazoo River before it was the Canadian Energy Assessment the same line as those previous. stopped. In a letter to Jeff erson Agency and the National Energy The State Department has issued County Judge Jeff Branick, a Trans- Board are confronted by the 1972 a thousand-page report on the Canada offi cial acknowledged the informal moratorium on tanker proposed $7 billion pipeline and spills, but blamed them on above traffi c in the confi nes of Queen states that the pipeline “is not likely ground valve and fl ange prob- Charlotte Sound. Some Canadians to cause signifi cant environmen- lems that could be prevented with believe the environment is more tal problems during construction proper tightening of the bolts. Pic- important than oil and profi ts. or operation,” so it seems that State The environmental opponents of the Keystone pipeline who dem- Keystone Pipeline — State Department Hearings onstrated in front of the White House unfortunately had no vis- Local ible eff ect on the State Depart- Monday, September 26, 4:30 to 10 PM ment. The Obama administration Bob Bowers Civic Center, 3401 Cultural Drive, Port Arthur has promised to have a decision State on the pipeline license by the end Wednesday, September 28, noon-3:30, 4-8 PM of the year, so we have only two University of Texas opportunities to aff ect the deci- Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, 2313 Red River Street, Austin sion. First, you can attend a State Department hearing on the pipe- Please plan to attend a hearing! line’s national interest. Our local hearing will be held from 4:30 to 10 2 July–September 2011 Big Thicket Reporter #111 Conservation Outlook PM on Monday, Sept. 26 in the Bob National Park Service Director Jona- the years. Currently they participate Bowers Civic Center, 3401 Cultural than B. Jarvis said, “The Garden Club in restoration of Texas trailing phlox Drive, Port Arthur. The Texas state of America has supported national (Phlox nivalis ssp texensis) in Big hearing will be noon-3:30, 4-8 PM parks and the National Park Service Thicket National Preserve. on Wednesday, Sept. 28 in the Uni- since before there was a National versity of Texas Lady Bird Johnson Park Service and the formal renewal Trinity River Refuge Pro- Auditorium, 2313 Red River Street, of this partnership will serve us well posed Paving Project Austin. Second, you can send let- into the future.” Trinity River National Wildlife Ref- ters and emails to the president, The Garden Club of America goes uge is seeking funds for a project asking him to honor his promise to back to 1913 and members were that may be completed altogether protect the environment. supportive in not only creating or in two phases, depending on the The Keystone XL pipeline, as cur- national parks but in creation of the funding requested from the Federal rently proposed, has limited safety National Park Service in 1916. The Highways Administration. If funds features and thus a spill could be Club continues support in conser- are secured, they would be used devastating to the Big Thicket. vation and plant management in to pave 1.1 mile of a Refuge gravel Please speak your mind. the partnership to inventory, map, road (starting at the end of the monitor, propagate, and transplant paved CR 417), pave current gravel NPS and Garden Club of threatened or endangered plants; parking areas, add water, electricity, America Partnership pull invasive plants; and conduct sanitary facilities, and correct drain- valuable research projects. age problems along the road with The National Park Service and the new culverts. This increasingly pop- Garden Club of America recently GCA actively supported the estab- ular public use area has two public renewed a formal partnership based lishment of the Big Thicket National boat ramps, levee trail, butterfl y gar- on conservation and management Preserve in the 1970s and has con- den, and fi shing pier which attracts of native plants. tinued that involvement through over 22,000 yearly visitors. Senator Hutchison Bonney Guidebook continued from page 1 continued from page 1 her. In presenting the Award, Pres. Lorraine spends summers in the Cathy Johnston remarked: “You Grand Tetons and winters at “Happy have worked eff ectively to provide Oaks” in Spring, Texas.
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