TPW TV -- WATER DOC: Water's on the menu for this 
month's TPW television series. Details on Passport to 
Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

Lee smith is a Parks and Wildlife television producer. He's 
currently working on the fourth in a series of water 
documentaries for the agency -- this one is about the Gulf 
of Mexico. 

:09 -- But it doesn't stop at the surf. It extends into coastal 
issues. So, we'll be dealing with a lot of things going on in the 
bays. 

Like red tide ... the decline in flounder populations ... and 
damage to oyster beds from Hurricanes Ike and Rita. It 
takes two years to complete one of these documentaries.

:13 -- And that's one of the great things about this job and 
about this show. We have the time to get the right footage, to 
find the right people, and to consider the topics and the issues.

The documentary on the Gulf will be ready for broadcast 
in 2011. Until then, view segments of previous 
documentaries on the PBS television series.

:08 -- The issues are current. And each segment will have 
something that pertains to what's going on right now and in the 
future.

One of the segments this month comes from the most 
recent documentary Texas -- The State of Flowing Water, 
and discusses the value of rivers to all living things.

:10--Rivers really are our connection to the natural world and if 
we don't protect them we lose something that cannot be 
replaced by humankind.

We have a list of stations that broadcast the PBS series at 
passporttotexas.org.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 


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