The Dynamic Duo --
The Salt Fork and Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos on the
Texas High Plains Brazos River Watershed

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"A whole river is mountain  and hill country and flat country and swamp and delta country, is rock bottom and sand bottom and weed bottom and fast, slow, clean, and filthy water, is all the kinds of trees and grasses and all the breeds of animals and birds and men that pertain and have ever pertained to its changing shores, is a thousand differing and not compatible things in-between that point where enough of the highland drainlets have trickled together to form it, and that wide, flat, probably desolate place where it discharges itself into the salt of the sea...The Brazos does not come from haunts of coot and hern, or even from mountains.  It comes from West Texas..." From John Graves Goodbye to a River 1957

 

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Salt Fork of the Brazos River Jayton Bridge (5 miles south of Jayton, TX) on Highway 380

Notes for the Teacher

This project is dedicated to my childhood family where I began my life within 5 miles of the Brazos and  to my family now on the Texas High Plains at the Brazos origin.                                                      
Marcia Talkmitt, Summer 2008

This work was created for the requirements of Texas A&M University's EDTC 683 Practicum.
Thank you Science Spectrum for allowing me to do this practicum!

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This material may be used for educational purposes.  Please contact Marcia Talkmitt with any intent to use or revise.

 

Double Mountain from Highway 70 off of Highway 380

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