When you sat down and read our recent cover story on Texas rivers—and you have, haven’t you?—you probably noticed that, in between the many paeans to our state’s natural beauty, I slipped in a few notes of alarm about the various threats our waterways face.After the issue came out, I was alerted to a situation on the Llano River that, while pretty small time, highlights the bureaucratic morass that makes saving Texas rivers something of a trial.The story starts in September of 2008, when Seawillow Kathleen Schmidt, who lives on the Llano River some ten miles west of Kingsland, noticed that her neighbor across the river, Joe Long, had built a makeshift sand dam blocking the river’s southern channel. Long, who runs a sand and…The post Saving the Llano appeared first on Texas Monthly.