Download or read book The Big Thicket Guidebook written by Lorraine G. Bonney and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates as you explore this diverse area. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, travel along fifteen tours, with maps included.
Download or read book The Big Thicket written by Pete Addison Y. Gunter and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bill creating the Big Thicket National Preserve was signed into law, it climaxed more than half a century of environmental debate, planning and destruction. The preserve opened new vistas for recreation. In this revised and updated version, Gunter not only describes the history and rich diversity of the region saved from the bulldozers of real estate developers and lumber companies, but also the dimensions of the new Big Thicket Preserve. He makes it possible to plan a trip there by including descriptions of each stream corridor unit, maps and canoeing conditions, hiking trails, and camping facilities. He lists representative flora and fauna. The book provides a background—both historical and biological—which will make clear just what the visitor to the Big Thicket is seeing; why it has mattered, and why it will continue to matter.
Download or read book Big Thicket National Preserve written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural World of the Texas Big Thicket written by and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature has been astonishingly prodigal in Texas' Big thicket. In the 98 color photos here, a magnificent visual record of the natural world of the Big Thicket is such timeless beauty.
Download or read book The Big Thicket a Challenge for Conservation written by Pete Addison Y. Gunter and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, A.Y. Gunter, President of the Big Thicket Association, describes the history and rich diversity of the region and calls for immediate action on the part of the conservationists and politicians alike before nothing is left to conserve. Roy Hamric's superb photography contrasts the remaining solitude and beauty of the Thicket with those sections now lost to careless exploitation and development."--from front flap of dust jacket.
Download or read book The Big Thicket a Challenge for Conservation Photog by Roy Hamric written by Pete Addison Y. Gunter and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Thicket Legacy written by Campbell Loughmiller and published by . This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of oral histories of the inhabitants of East Texas' Big Thicket region. Topics include hunting, ghost stories, natural history and flora and fauna.
Download or read book Big Thicket Region written by Renée Hart Wells and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Thicket region is centered in Hardin County but includes land in Tyler, Jasper, Newton, Polk, Liberty, Orange, and Jefferson Counties as well. Changes to the dense forests of the thicket began with pioneers who first cleared land for family farms and communities. Economic pressure on the forests occurred as steam engines rode iron rails through vast stands of yellow pine and timber harvesting laid waste in a "cut and get out" sawmilling method. The oil boom also resulted in enormous changes as town populations doubled almost overnight. In 1936, R.E. Jackson, a conductor on the Santa Fe Railway, formed the first organization with the goal of protecting the thicket. Later individuals continued the fight, and in 1974, the United States Congress authorized the Big Thicket National Preserve. The preserve, with its 112,500 acres in nine land units and six water corridors, now protects the remnants of a biological crossroads that once covered more than three million acres.
Download or read book Big Thicket National Preserve written by Laurence Parent and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impressions of the Big Thicket written by Michael Frary and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding the Big Thicket written by Pete A. Y. Gunter and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fabled Big Thicket region of southeast Texas has long been the subject of debate and disagreement. Exactly where are the borders of this swampy, densely wooded region, and how does its folklore fit in with its biological character? Finding the Big Thicket: A Cartographic Approach is the first attempt to answer such questions by bringing together all of the available maps of the "Thicket". These maps converge on a single area, stretching west from the Louisiana border to a point just north of Houston. This coherence of maps proves conclusively that the Big Thicket does in fact exist and has a definite location. It also demonstrates the existence of parts of the Big Thicket to the west and to the east of the present Big Thicket National Biological Preserve which still call out for conservation.
Download or read book Big Thicket National Preserve written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Thicket National Preserve Texas written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature Lover s Guide to the Big Thicket written by Howard H. Peacock and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether this is your first trip to the Big Thicket or your five hundredth, this handy guide will lead you down paths and waterways that are a nature lover's dream. America's first designated national preserve, the Big Thicket in Southeast Texas harbors at least a thousand species of flowering plants, two hundred species of birds, fifty kinds of reptiles, twenty species of mammals, two hundred species of wild trees and shrubs, and even four kinds of carnivorous (meat-eating) plants. The ten different ecosystems that support this unique diversity range from arid sandylands to cypress sloughs, from lordly upland forests to mud-crusted flats dappled by palmetto fronds. Small wonder, as popular nature writer Howard Peacock tells us, that the region has been called the "Biological Crossroads of North America" or even, as conservation efforts have focused on it, "America's Ark." Nature Lover's Guide to the Big Thicket offers tips on identifying plants and animals residing in the area, suggestions on trails to follow, and descriptions of sights to see and recreational opportunities to enjoy. It provides photographs to help plan your visit and checklists to record it. It's a book for the hip pocket, the car seat, the table by a reading chair. Let it lead you now in a leisurely tour--or many such tours--of this special 95,000-acre spot of earth.
Download or read book Big Thicket Legacy written by Campbell Loughmiller and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.
Download or read book Big Thicket National Preserve Establishment written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guidebook of Federal Resources for K 12 Mathematics and Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains directories of federal agencies that promote mathematics and science education at elementary and secondary levels; organized in sections by agency name, national program name, and state highlights by region.
