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First edition. |
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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership
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Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
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Texas Landscape Project.
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Ecology -- Texas -- Sources.
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Ecology. |
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Texas. |
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Sources.
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Biodiversity conservation -- Texas -- Sources.
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Biodiversity conservation. |
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Human ecology -- Texas -- Maps.
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Human ecology. |
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Maps.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Texas -- Maps.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Texas.
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Natural resources management areas -- Texas.
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Natural resources management areas. |
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Conservation projects (Natural resources) -- Texas.
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Conservation projects (Natural resources) |
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Human ecology -- Texas.
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Natural resources management areas -- Texas -- Maps.
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Natural resources management areas -- Effect of human beings on -- Texas -- Maps.
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Nature -- Sources.
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Nature. |
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Conservation projects (Natural resources) -- Effect of human beings on -- Texas -- Maps.
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Biodiversity conservation -- Texas.
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Ecology -- Texas.
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Electronic books.
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Maps.
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| Added Author |
Crosby, Clare.
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Ogren, Jonathan, cartographer.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1623493722 |
| ISBN |
1623493730 |
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9781623493721 |
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1623493722 |
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9781623493738 (electronic book) |
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