The Texas Landscape Project : nature and people /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2016].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership.
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Table of Contents:
- Overview map
- Land
- Land protection
- Prairies, pastures, cropfields, and lawns
- Desert bighorn sheep
- The Big Thicket
- Protecting the Neches Valley
- Conserving land and wildlife
- Cooperation
- Wildlife, land, and taxes
- The fall and rise of the American bison
- Water
- Surface water
- High Plains Playas
- Reservoirs
- Drought and water use
- Stream flows and water rights
- Water planning and interbasin transfers
- Dams in the Big Bend
- Trinity barge canal
- Fishing, swimming, and polluting
- History and prehistory of Lake Amistad
- Falcon Reservoir's drowned history
- Exotic fish in Texas
- Groundwater
- Lost springs and old trails
- Barton Springs, Austin, and nonpoint source pollution
- Ogallala Aquifer
- Comal, San Antonio, and the Edwards
- Houston subsidence
- Gulf of Mexico
- Reefs
- Storms and the Texas Coast
- Kemp's ridley sea turtle
- Air
- Lead, Smeltertown, and the family car
- The ozone hole
- Tobacco and secondhand smoke
- Upsets
- Monarch butterflies
- Energy
- Coal
- Oil and gas, water and wastewater
- Brown pelican
- Wind energy
- The built world
- Population growth and shift
- Sprawl
- Fire ants!
- Lights in the night
- Billboards
- Shared sacrifice?
- Colonias
- The Border and the Borderlands
- Sparrows, starlings, and doves.