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The Texas Landscape Project : Nature and People /
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 limite...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.