Meetings & Events

The 2025 CRP Steering Committee Meeting

The 2025 CRP Steering Committee Meeting was held in Person with a Virtual option on Friday, July 18, 2025, at 1:00pm at the The Texas Forestry Association Building: 1903 Atkinson Dr, Lufkin, TX 75901. The agenda for this meeting as well as agendas, minutes and presentations for past meetings are available below. For more information or to be added to the Steering Committee mailing list, please contact Emylea Cole at 936-632-7795 ecole@anra.org.

Meeting Agendas, Minutes & Presentations

• 2025 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2025 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes (coming soon)
  • Introduction, Overview and Updates for 2025 – Jeremiah Poling and Emylea Cole, ANRA
  • Special Project Updates:
    • Middle Neches, Bayou Carrizo, and Sandy Creek – Shaylynn Postma, TWRI
    • Middle Neches Addendum – Wyatt Eason, TCEQ
    • Attoyac Bayou and La Nana Bayou – Alexander Neal, TWRI
    • Education and Outreach Updates – Kimberly Wagner, ANRA
    • Guest Speakers:
      • Caleb Mullins, SFA
        Breeding In Troubled Waters:
        How Chinese tallow Leaf Litter Alters Amphibian oviposition
  • Recording of the 2025 meeting:
    

• 2024 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2024 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
  • Introduction, Overview and Updates for 2024 – Jeremiah Poling and Andrew Henry, ANRA
  • Special Project Updates:
    • La Nana Bayou and Attoyac Bayou – Luna Yang, TWRI
    • Ayish Bayou & West Mud Creek Water Quality – Luna Yang, TWRI
    • Education and Outreach Updates – Kimberly Wagner, ANRA
    • Guest Speakers:
      • Ashley Villarreal, Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful
      • Jose Lopez, Texas Conservation Alliance
      • Sam Hernandez, Citizen Nac
      • Curtis Craven, Independent Film Maker
  • Recording of the 2024 meeting:
    
• 2023 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2023 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
  • Introduction, Overview and Updates for 2023 – Jeremiah Poling and Andrew Henry, ANRA
  • Special Project Updates:
    • Kickapoo Watershed Protection Plan – Leah Taylor, TIAER
    • Middle Neches Update – Luna Yang, TWRI
    • Ayish Bayou & West Mud Creek Water Quality – Duncan Kikoyo, TWRI
  • Education and Outreach Updates – Kimberly Wagner, ANRA
  • Recording of the 2023 meeting:
    

• 2022 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2022 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
  • Introduction, Overview and Updates for 2022 – Jeremiah Poling and Rene Barelas, ANRA
  • Special Project Updates:
    • Kickapoo Watershed Protection Plan – Leah Taylor, TIAER
    • Attoyac Bayou and La Nana Creek – Michael Schramm, TWRI
    • Ayish Bayou Water Quality – Duncan Kikoyo, TWRI
  • Repatriation of illegally harvested alligator snapping turtles back into native Texas waters –Andy Mullaney, Stephen F. Austin State University
  • Recording of the 2022 meeting:
    

• 2021 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2021 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
  • Introduction, Overview and Updates for 2021- Carla Ethridge, ANRA
  • Special Project Updates:
    • Addressing bacterial impairments on tributaries of the Middle Neches (Jack Creek, Cedar Creek, Hurricane Creek, Biloxi Creek) & Angelina River Watershed Characterization – Anna Gitter, TWRI
    • Attoyac Bayou and La Nana Creek – Emily Monroe, TWRI
    • Watershed Characterization project on Kickapoo Creek in Henderson County – Narayanan Kannan, PhD, TIAER
  • Feral Hog Management in Relation to Water Quality – Sean Willis, TPWD
  • Best Management Practices for Water Quality – Kyle Wright, NRCS
  • Recording of the 2021 meeting:
    
• 2020 Clean Rivers Program Stakeholder Update Newsletter

• 2020 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2020 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & CRP & CRP updates for 2020 – Jeremiah Poling & Carla Ethridge, ANRA
  • Special Project Updates:
    • Watershed Characterization project on Kickapoo Creek in Henderson County – Leah Taylor, Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research
    • Addressing bacterial impairments on tributaries of the Middle Neches (Jack Creek, Cedar Creek, Hurricane Creek, Biloxi Creek) & Angelina River Watershed Characterization – Anna Gitter, Texas Water Resources Institute
    • Attoyac Bayou watershed On-site Sewage Facility Repair and Replacement & Attoyac Bayou BMP Effectiveness Monitoring – Dr. Lucas Gregory, Texas Water Resources Institute
    • La Nana Bayou WPP Development Project Update – Dr. Lucas Gregory, Texas Water Resources Institute
  • Conservation Updates:
    • Texas Freshwater Mussels and the Alligator Snapping Turtle – Allison McElroy, ANRA
    • Western Chicken Turtle Updates—Mandi Gordon, Environmental Institute of Houston
  • Recording of the 2020 meeting:
    

• 2019 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2019 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & CRP – Jeremiah Poling & Dylan Coleman, ANRA
  • Introduction to a Watershed Characterization project on Kickapoo Creek in Henderson County – Leah Taylor, Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research
  • Introduction to projects to address bacterial impairments on tributaries of the Middle and Lower Neches & updates on ongoing Nonpoint Source Grant Projects for the Attoyac Bayou, Angelina River, and La Nana Creek Watersheds – Dr. Lucas Gregory, Anna Gitter, and Emily Monroe, Texas Water Resources Institute
  • Attoyac Watershed Protection Plan Summary of 2017-2018 Monitoring – Dr. Matthew McBroom, SFA
  • Texas Freshwater Mussels of Conservation Concern – Gary Pandolfi & Erik Orsak, United States Fish and Wildlife Service

• 2018 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2018 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & The Clean Rivers Program – Jeremiah Poling, ANRA
  • Attoyac Bayou Projects Update– Amy Truong, Texas Water Resources Institute
  • Attoyac Bayou Presentation – Cheryl Scott, Stephen F. Austin State University
  • Angelina River Project Update – Dr. Lucas Gregory, Texas Water Resources Institute
  • La Nana Bayou Project Update – Ed Rhodes, Texas Water Resources Institute
  • Overview of upcoming projects – Dr. Lucas Gregory, Texas Water Resources Institute
  • Texas Stream Team Program – Michael Jones, Texas Stream Team

• 2017 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2017 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & The Clean Rivers Program – Brian Sims, ANRA (3.4 MB)
  • ANRA’s Water Quality Monitoring Program – What We Test For and Why – Hannah Lucia, ANRA (1.1 MB)
  • Neches River Wildness – Adrian F. Van Dellen, The Sentinels (unavailable online for copyright reasons)
  • Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) Neches Basin Hydrology – Bret W. Higginbotham, P.E., CFM, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (3.3 MB)
  • Sam Rayburn Reservoir Master Plan Revision – Bart Dearborn, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1.5 MB)
  • Forestry Best Management Practices to Protect and Preserve Water Quality – Dr. Matthew McBroom, Stephen F. Austin State University (3.2 MB)
  • Update on Ongoing and Upcoming Nonpoint Source Grant Projects for the Attoyac Bayou, Angelina River, and La Nana Creek Watersheds – Dr. Lucas Gregory / Amy Truong / Kirby Peddicord, TWRI (1.5 MB)

• 2016 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2016 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• 2016 CRP Steering Committee Presentations:
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & The Clean Rivers Program – Brian Sims, ANRA (3.4 MB)
  • Update on ANRA’s NPS Grant – Installation of On-Site Sewage Facilities in the Attoyac Bayou Watershed – Brian Sims, ANRA (3 MB)
  • Implementing the Attoyac Bayou Watershed Protection Plan– Lucas Gregory, TWRI (1 MB)
  • Current Status of the Texas Integrated Report (IR) for Clean Water Act Sections 305(b) and 303(d) – Lauren Pulliam, TCEQ (1 MB)
• 2015 CRP Stakeholder Update Newsletter

• 2014 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2014 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• 2014 CRP Steering Committee Presentations:
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & The Clean Rivers Program – Brian Sims, ANRA (4.5 MB)
  • Texas Stream Team Volunteer Monitoring Program – Travis Tidwell, Texas Stream Team (843 KB)
  • Recreational Use Attainability Analysis for Kickapoo Creek, Neches River Above Lake Palestine, Prairie Creek, Mud Creek, and West Mud Creek – Leah Taylor, TIAER (4.1 MB)
  • Attoyac Bayou Watershed Protection Plan Update– Lucas Gregory, TWRI (854 KB)

• 2013 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2013 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• 2013 CRP Steering Committee Presentations:
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & The Clean Rivers Program – Brian Sims, ANRA (705 KB)
  • Overview of Texas Surface Water Quality Standards & Impaired Water Bodies in the Neches Basin – Lori Hamilton, ANRA (508 KB)
  • Attoyac Bayou WPP Development Update – Lucas Gregory, TWRI (777 KB)
  • ANRA’s Draft FY 2013 Basin Highlights Report – Brian Sims, ANRA (566 KB)

• 2012 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2012 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• 2012 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Presentations:
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & The Clean Rivers Program – Brian Sims, ANRA (1.34 MB)
  • ANRA’s Water Quality Monitoring Program – Brian Sims, ANRA (4 MB)
  • Panoramic Photography & ANRA’s Water Quality Monitoring Program – Jeremiah Poling, ANRA (2.45 MB)
  • Attoyac Bayou Watershed Protection Plan Update – Neil Boitnott, Castilaw Environmental (4.29 MB)
  • Recreational Use Attainability Analysis of the Attoyac River and its Tributaries – Sarah Fuller, SFASU (1.4 MB)
  • Invasive Species in Sam Rayburn Reservoir – Floyd Boyett, USACE (8.4 MB)
  • Acidification of the Lake Stryker Watershed – Adam Whisenant, TPWD (1.44 MB)
  • ANRA’s Draft FY 2012 Basin Highlights Report – Brian Sims, ANRA (3.43 MB)

• 2011 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2011 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• 2011 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Presentations:
  • Introduction & Overview of ANRA & The Clean Rivers Program – Brian Sims, ANRA (0.93 MB)
  • Overview of ANRA’s Water Quality Monitoring – Brian Sims, ANRA (2.9 MB)
  • Overview of the Watershed Action Planning Process – Julie McEntire, TCEQ (0.13 MB)
  • Attoyac Bayou Watershed Protection Plan – Anthony Castilaw, Castilaw Environmental (0.7 MB)
  • Non-Point Source Pollution – Mitch Conine, TSSWCB (0.43 MB)
  • Invasive Species – Lucas Gregory, Texas Water Resource Institute (2.23 MB)
  • E. coli and Nutrient Criteria – Peter Schaefer, TCEQ (0.48 MB)

• 2010 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2010 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• 2010 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Presentations:
  • Introduction & Overview of the Clean Rivers Program – Brian Sims, ANRA (1.13 MB)
  • Water Quality Monitoring – Ashley Walthall, ANRA (1.59 MB)
  • Discussion on Draft Basin Summary Report – Brian Sims, ANRA (1.33 MB)
  • TCEQ 2010 Integrated Report – Shawna Simpson, TCEQ (4.16 MB)
  • Texas Stream Team Volunteer Monitoring – Josh Oyer, Texas Stream Team (1.07 MB)
  • Aquatic Invasives of Texas Reservoirs – Howard Elder, TPWD (1.5 MB)
  • Lake Columbia Sourcewater Assessment Project – Brian Sims, ANRA (0.5 MB)
  • Attoyac Bayou WPP – Anthony Castilaw, Castilaw Environmental Services (0.9 MB)
  • Update on Lake Columbia – Kelley Holcomb, ANRA (0.6 MB)

• 2009 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2009 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

• 2008 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2008 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

• 2007 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Agenda
• 2007 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• 2007 CRP Steering Committee Meeting Presentation