Boggy Slough : A Forest, a Family, and a Foundation for Land Conservation /

"Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas' Trinity and Houston counties. More than twenty miles of the Neches River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the state, serves as the eastern boundary, and for...

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Autor principal: Gerland, Jonathan K., 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Natural resources conservation areas.
Natural history.
NATURE / Natural Resources.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Natural history > Texas > Boggy Slough Conservation Area.
Natural resources conservation areas > Texas.
Texas.
Boggy Slough Conservation Area (Tex.) > Biography.
Boggy Slough Conservation Area (Tex.) > History.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A story of the land
  • A land of provision
  • A land of production
  • T.L.L. Temple and the humble beginnings of a legacy
  • A Land of industry: railroads, logging, and land acquisition
  • The land fenced: ranching, tenant farming, and the birth of forestry
  • The fenced land: game and wildlife management
  • The land for sale: the Great Depression and difficult decisions
  • Whose land Is It? Personality factors in shaping Boggy Slough
  • The ranch becomes Boggy Slough
  • Conservation land
  • Appendix. An ecological analysis from Boggy Slough Conservation Area's original Texas land surveys.

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