The Texas Landscape Project
Subtitle: nature and people
By: text by David Todd ; exhibits by Jonathan Ogren ; with assistance from Clare Crosby, Matt Fougerat, Johanna Arendt, and Brad Peter ; foreword by Andrew Sansom
Contributors: Ogren, Jonathan, cartographer; Crosby, Clare
Edition: First edition.
Series: Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership; Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9781623493721; 9781623493738
Subjects: Texas Landscape Project; Ecology; Nature; Conservation projects (Natural resources); Effect of human beings on; Maps; Sources; Human ecology; Natural resources management areas; Biodiversity conservation
Description: 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 environmental changes that have occurred in Texas using more than 300 color maps, expertly crafted by cartographer Jonathan Ogren, and over 100 photographs that coalesce to fashion a broad portrait of the modern Texas landscape. The rich data, compiled by author David Todd, are presented in clearly written yet marvelously detailed text that gives historical context and contemporary statistics for environmental trends connected to the land, water, air, energy, and built world of the second-largest and second-most populated state in the nation. An engaging read for any environmentalist or conscientious citizen, The Texas Landscape Project provides a true sense of the grand scope of the Lone Star State and the high stakes of protecting it. For more information about this book, please visit http://texaslandscape.org/.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview map; title: Land; title: Land protection; title: Prairies, pastures, cropfields, and lawns; title: Desert bighorn sheep; title: The Big Thicket; title: Protecting the Neches Valley; title: Conserving land and wildlife; title: Cooperation; title: Wildlife, land, and taxes; title: The fall and rise of the American bison; title: Water; title: Surface water; title: High Plains Playas; title: Reservoirs; title: Drought and water use; title: Stream flows and water rights; title: Water planning and interbasin transfers; title: Dams in the Big Bend; title: Trinity barge canal; title: Fishing, swimming, and polluting; title: History and prehistory of Lake Amistad; title: Falcon Reservoir's drowned history; title: Exotic fish in Texas; title: Groundwater; title: Lost springs and old trails; title: Barton Springs, Austin, and nonpoint source pollution; title: Ogallala Aquifer; title: Comal, San Antonio, and the Edwards; title: Houston subsidence; title: Gulf of Mexico; title: Reefs; title: Storms and the Texas Coast; title: Kemp's ridley sea turtle; title: Air; title: Lead, Smeltertown, and the family car; title: The ozone hole; title: Tobacco and secondhand smoke; title: Upsets; title: Monarch butterflies; title: Energy; title: Coal; title: Oil and gas, water and wastewater; title: Brown pelican; title: Wind energy; title: The built world; title: Population growth and shift; title: Sprawl; title: Fire ants!; title: Lights in the night; title: Billboards; title: Shared sacrifice?; title: Colonias; title: The Border and the Borderlands; title: Sparrows, starlings, and doves.