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The Texas Landscape Project nature and people
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Title
The Texas Landscape Project [electronic resource] : 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.
ISBN
1623493730
9781623493738
9781623493721 (flex : alk. paper)
Edition
First edition.
Published
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Ecology and Evolution.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2016
Series
Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership
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.
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