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Author Todd, David, 1959- author.

Title The Texas Landscape Project : Nature and People / text by David Todd ; exhibits by Jonathan Ogren ; with assistance from Clare Crosby, Matt Fougerat, Johanna Arendt, and Brad Peter ; foreword by Andrew Sansom
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2016
[Place of publication not identified] : Texas A & M University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership
Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership.
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
Summary The Texas Landscape Project explores conservation and ecology in Texas by presenting a highly visual and deeply researched view of the widespread changes that have affected the state as its population and economy have boomed and as Texans have worked ever harder to safeguard its bountiful but limited natural resources. Covering the entire state, from Pineywoods bottomlands and Panhandle playas to Hill Country springs and Big Bend canyons, the project examines a host of familiar and not so familiar environmental issues. A companion volume to The Texas Legacy Project, this book tracks specific e
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Texas Landscape Project.
Ecology -- Texas -- Sources
Biodiversity conservation -- Texas -- Sources
Human ecology -- Texas -- Maps
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Texas -- Maps
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Texas
Natural resources management areas -- Texas
Conservation projects (Natural resources) -- Texas
Human ecology -- Texas
Natural resources management areas -- Texas -- Maps
Natural resources management areas -- Effect of human beings on -- Texas -- Maps
Nature -- Sources
Conservation projects (Natural resources) -- Effect of human beings on -- Texas -- Maps
Biodiversity conservation -- Texas
Ecology -- Texas
Social Science / Human Geography.
Social Science / Reference.
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Nature
Biodiversity conservation
Conservation projects (Natural resources)
Ecology
Human ecology
Natural resources management areas
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Texas
Genre/Form Electronic books
Maps
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Crosby, Clare
Ogren, Jonathan, cartographer
ISBN 1623493730
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9781623493738