Habitat conservation plans have been developed to protect ecosystems at Comal, San Marcos, and Barton springs of the Edwards aquifer. Payne and others (2019) summarize the Habitat Conservation Plan developed for the San Antonio Segment in this video. (2 minutes)
A discussion of the material in this video is provided in Section 6 ‘Legal and Administrative Systems’ of the Groundwater Project book ‘The Edwards Aquifer’, the PDF can be downloaded or the online version can be read at that link.
More groundwater videos are available at https://gw-project.org/videos/.
Payne, S., N. Pence, and C. Furl, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1130/2019.1215(16).
Citation: Edwards Aquifer Authority (2022). Karst: Habitat conservation of Edwards Aquifer springs. Video of The Groundwater Project, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.