没有共同努力保护德克萨斯州最有潜力的水库，比如 Fastrill水库，在不久的将来，该州的水安全将面临巨大威胁。第80届 立法机构在保护这些遗址方面的过度努力几乎没有实际的防御措施 美国鱼类和野生动物服务局（USFWS）的掌握。如果州或联邦一级没有采取措施修改法律， 德克萨斯州大部分水库的开发将面临巨大障碍， 尤其是在德克萨斯州东部，那里有大部分剩余的低地硬木。水库建设导致河流、湿地和树木的新损失 滩地栖息地应包括补偿这些影响的要求，以及 参与保护和管理剩余区域。州和联邦法律都要求这样做 缓解影响。希望水资源开发商之间正在兴起的合作精神， 自然资源保护者和其他受影响的利益可以扩展到水库的合作 发展提供必要的资金并增强政治意愿，以增加 保护陆地上的硬木和其他自然资源 只建立避难所。Fastrill项目可以作为潜在 这一过程是通过将提议的避难所重新安置到一个栖息地更好的地点，使用的土地是 以项目发起人的成本获得的费用，可以管理这些费用，使所有德克萨斯人受益，而不是 只有几个有钱人。

Without a concerted effort to protect Texas' best potential reservoir sites, such as the Fastrill Reservoir, the state's water security will be in great peril in the near future. The 80th Legislature's overreaching attempt at protecting these sites gives little to no actual defense from the grasp of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). If something is not done at the state or federal level to change the law, considerable barriers will exist to block the development of most reservoir sites in Texas, particularly those in East Texas where most of the remaining bottomland hardwoods occur. Reservoir construction that results in a new loss of riverine, wetland and wooded bottomland habitats, should include requirements to compensate for those impacts, and to participate in preserving and managing remaining areas. Both state and federal law requires such mitigation of impacts. Hopefully, the emerging spirit of cooperation between water developers, conservationists, and other affected interests can be extended to cooperation in reservoir development to provide the funds and increase the political will necessary for increased protection of bottomland hardwoods and other natural resources beyond what can occur from the establishment of refuges alone. The Fastrill project can be a model example of the potential for this process by relocating the proposed refuge to a site with better habitat using land that is acquired in fee at the project sponsors' costs that can be managed to the benefit of all Texans, not just a wealthy few.