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We first saw this turtle some months ago when there was more water in Barton Creek. With the lack of rain, the water level continued to fall in the pool where this Spiny Softshell Turtle lived and the pool became smaller and smaller. This autumn we walked this section of the creek regularly. And each time it became easier and easier to see the turtle. The water became murkier and it had to rise to surface more frequently to get air.

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Pam Thompson interviews Raymond M. Slade, Jr. on her Austin News Real program on November 15, 2007. Watch Video. Austin News Real is a television program produced by ICONMEDIA's Pam Thompson and Stefan Wray that airs on Austin cable access channel 10. This season Austin News Real presents a series focused on water issues called Texas Water 101. In this episode Raymond M. Slade, Jr., a hydrologist, narrates his slide show "Water Issues in the Texas Hill Country." Texas Water 101 is sponsored by the Save Barton Creek Association.

Today we walked on Barton Creek. It is mostly a dry creek bed except for a few remaining pools. We looked at one pool where we had seen turtles before. Today we saw this Soft Shell Turtle. Not sure exactly which type it is. What's unfortunate is that since there are so few pools of water left on the creek right now, unleashed dogs love to jump into this water and splash about. But it's not so good for the turtles.

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Driving Sprawl tells the story of Advanced Micro Device's (AMD) controversial move over the Barton Springs aquifer in Austin, Texas. The 20 minute documentary, produced by ICONMEDIA's Pam Thompson and Stefan Wray in 2005, was sponsored by the Save Our Springs Alliance.

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Carlos Mauricio survived imprisonment and torture in El Salvador in the 1980s. In this piece Carlos speaks in Austin, Texas, about his Stop Impunity Project, his work to close the School of the Americas (aka the School of the Assassins), and the Journey For Justice caravan headed to Fort Benning, Georgia. Carlos also talks about his recent experience in Burma.

Recorded at the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday, November 11, 2007.