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.