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Mike Mecke
Specialist- Water Management Programs

MBMecke@taexgw.tamu.edu

Program Specialist - Water Resources
Texas Cooperative Extension
Texas Water Resources Institute
Texas A & M University

B.S. - Texas A & M University, 1963
Teaching Certificate -Vocational Agriculture & Biology, 1963
M.S. - University of Wyoming, Rangeland Ecology & Watershed Management, 1979

Extension

         As Extension Water Specialist, I assist and work through County Extension Agents - both Agriculture and Family & Consumer Sciences, other Specialists, Experiment Station Researchers, colleagues at the Texas Water Resources Institute, surface and underground water districts, water utilities, irrigation districts, state water planning groups, watershed and riparian groups, schools, individuals and others in order to carry out educational programs through meetings, conferences, field tours, media releases and other resources. I am involved in appropriate research and demonstration projects regarding water conservation or water quality across West Texas. In cooperation with the Rio Grande Basin Initiative, I work with organizations, groups and individuals, at the Texas state and federal level; in bordering areas of Mexico, plus the neighboring watersheds or aquifers in the state of New Mexico.

SELECTED ORGANIZATIONS/APPOINTMENTS

Paseo del Norte Watershed Council

American Water Resources Association
- Co-chair-Southwest Region, Hydrology & Watershed Committee

Society for Range Management
- Member Riparian & Watershed Committee

Texas Riparian Association, Past President

SELECTED ARTICLES/PAPERS

Mecke, Mike. 1996. Historical Vegetation Changes on the Edwards Plateau of Texas and the Effects Upon Watersheds. Proceedings Watershed 96, EPA Conference.
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/Proceed/mecke.html

Mecke, Mike. 2000. Riparian Zones, Vital to Environmental Quality, Deserve Protection, Enhancement in Texas, Texas Riparian Association Forum, Austin.
http://www.sa-naturecenter.org/ClassRef/ecosystems/UrbanRuralWater.html

Mecke, Mike. 2001. What Do We Have Here? A Brush Patch or Diverse Habitat and
Water? Bexar Tracks Newsletter, Bexar Audubon Society.
http://www.sa-naturecenter.org/ClassRef/ecosystems/Drainage1.html

Mecke, Mike. 2000. Urban Interests and Rural Watersheds", Proceedings National Grazing Lands Initiative Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
http://www.sa-naturecenter.org/ClassRef/ecosystems/UrbanRuralWater.html

Mecke, Mike. 2001. How Big is Too Big?. President's Message, Bexar Tracks Newsletter, Bexar Audubon Society.
http://www.sa-naturecenter.org/ClassRef/ecosystems/UrbanRuralWater.html