TPW TV -- APRIL: Looking back in time with the Texas Parks 
and wildlife TV Show ... details ahead on Passport to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

This month the Texas Parks and Wildlife TV series 
revisits the past...including the sixties and seventies 
when Alcoa dumped mercury into the bay on a daily 
basis. Don Cash is series producer.

It's not so much a story about the mercury going into the bay, 
it's really more a story about how state agencies worked with 
Alcoa to finally come together and realized that cleaning up the 
bays is really in the best interest of everyone. Once there's buy 
in by the company, and they're involved in the restoration, and 
they see what we're trying to do, that's when they learn to 
appreciate the environment. Uh, we've got a story on living 
history, which is a story about Trent Butler, middle schooler 
from here in Austin, who as a boy scout became interested in 
the CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps. Trent did a lot of research 
and actually went to a CCC reunion. How old were you when you 
joined the CCC? I was nineteen. Nineteen. Seventeen. Seventeen? 
I was sixteen years old. I joined to feed my family. You know, 
everybody's like in their nineties and, this must be fun for them, 
you know. Talking to a young person like me who wants to know 
their experience, and hear what they heard, you know? And 
used their stories to help tell the story for his History Day 
project. The show does spend some time occasionally looking 
back at where we came from. And, as always, like we say, that 
helps us know where we are today. :69

Thanks, Don. There's more information at 
passporttotexas.org.

That's our show ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm 
Cecilia Nasti. 











Total sound bite time:		 0:69.0
Maximum Script time:		 0:16.0 Suggested show time: 85.0 = 1:25