Todd, David,  1959- <br/><br/>
The Texas Landscape Project  nature and people /  [electronic resource] : 
text by David Todd ; exhibits by Jonathan Ogren ; with assistance from Clare Crosby, Matt Fougerat, Johanna Arendt, and Brad Peter ; foreword by Andrew Sansom. 
 - First edition. 
 - College Station :  Texas A&M University Press,  2016. 
 - 1 online resource (pages cm.) 
 - Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership .
 - Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. books on conservation leadership. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781623493738 1623493730 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Texas Landscape Project.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ecology--Texas--Sources.<br/>Biodiversity conservation--Texas--Sources.<br/>Human ecology--Texas--Maps.<br/>Human ecology--Texas.<br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on--Texas--Maps.<br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on--Texas.<br/>Natural resources management areas--Texas--Maps.<br/>Natural resources management areas--Texas.<br/>Conservation projects (Natural resources)--Texas.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GE155.T4  / T537 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.709764