Landscapes Of Texas
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Landscapes Of Texas
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Author : Louise Lindsey Merrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Landscapes Of Texas written by Louise Lindsey Merrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Landscapes Of Texas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural
Release Date : 1980
Landscapes Of Texas written by and has been published by Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
Contains color photographs that showcase the diversity and beauty of Texas landscapes, drawn from the pages of "Texas Highways," magazine.
Landscapes Of Texas
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Author : Bill Zaner
language : en
Publisher: Not Applicable
Release Date : 2006-03
Landscapes Of Texas written by Bill Zaner and has been published by Not Applicable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03 with Art categories.
Landscapes of Texas" offers a wonderful look at the variety of geographical features in Texas. After seeing Zaners watercolors, the reader may want to visit each and every region of the great state of Texas.
Parks For Texas
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Author : James Wright Steely
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-05
Parks For Texas written by James Wright Steely and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with History categories.
State parks across Texas offer a world of opportunities for recreation and education. Yet few park visitors or park managers know the remarkable story of how this magnificent state park system came into being during the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival records and examining especially the political context of the New Deal, James Wright Steely here provides the first comprehensive history of the founding and building of the Texas state park system. Steely's history begins in the 1880s with the movement to establish parks around historical sites from the Texas Revolution. He follows the fits-and-starts progress of park development through the early 1920s, when Governor Pat Neff envisioned the kind of park system that ultimately came into being between 1933 and 1942. During the Depression an amazing cast of personalities from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson led, followed, or obstructed the drive to create this state park system. The New Deal federal-state partnerships for depression relief gave Texas the funding and personnel to build 52 recreational parks under the direction of the National Park Service. Steely focuses in detail on the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps, whose members built parks from Caddo Lake in the east to the first park improvements in the Big Bend out west. An appendix lists and describes all the state parks in Texas through 1945, while Steely's epilogue brings the parks' story up to the present.
Landscaping With Native Plants Of Texas 2nd Edition
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Author : George Oxford Miller
language : en
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Release Date : 2013-02-25
Landscaping With Native Plants Of Texas 2nd Edition written by George Oxford Miller and has been published by Voyageur Press (MN) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-25 with Gardening categories.
A thorough and well-illustrated guide to Texas' native plants, Landscaping with Native Plants of Texas provides both inspiration and instruction for creating beautiful and ecologically sound landscapes using the best that Texas has to offer.
Ancient Landscapes Of South Texas
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Author : Juan L. Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-01-30
Ancient Landscapes Of South Texas written by Juan L. Gonzalez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-30 with categories.
In this book about the Ancient Landscapes of South Texas, we travel from deep time at the forming of the solar system all the way to the algal mats that review themselves with each tidal cycle. We explore the evidence of our changing landscape. Ancient beaches and drowned shorelines, volcanoes, and shifting sand, giant oysters and mammoths, petrified forests and thousand-year-old living trees, tiny zircon crystals and a powerful river are part of our natural landscape. Juxtaposed with this is how this landscape has, for millennia, shaped the lives of people in the past. Today, in the Anthropocene, we see how human activities, dating largely from the Industrial Revolution, changed the earth's landscape and ecosystems. The photographs in this book tell the story and should encourage Geotourism and a broader celebration of our Public Heritage of South Texas along the Rio Grande. Keywords are: Geoheritage, Geotourism, Human-land interaction, Anthropocene, South Texas Geology, Rio Grande Valley Geology and Culture, Ecotourism
The Texas Landscape Project
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Author : David A. Todd
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-14
The Texas Landscape Project written by David A. Todd and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Nature categories.
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 limited natural resources. Covering the entire state, from Pineywoods bottomlands and Panhandle playas to Hill Country springs and Big Bend canyons, the project examines a host of familiar and not so familiar environmental issues. A companion volume to The Texas Legacy Project, this book tracks specific environmental changes that have occurred in Texas using more than 300 color maps, expertly crafted by cartographer Jonathan Ogren, and over 100 photographs that coalesce to fashion a broad portrait of the modern Texas landscape. The rich data, compiled by author David Todd, are presented in clearly written yet marvelously detailed text that gives historical context and contemporary statistics for environmental trends connected to the land, water, air, energy, and built world of the second-largest and second-most populated state in the nation. An engaging read for any environmentalist or conscientious citizen, The Texas Landscape Project provides a true sense of the grand scope of the Lone Star State and the high stakes of protecting it. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Texas Geography
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Author : Michael Rajczak
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Texas Geography written by Michael Rajczak and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Plains, deserts, mountains, and water cover the great state of Texas, giving it one of our country’s most unique geographical landscapes. This book teaches students how Texas’s geography contributed to settling the state. It also discusses its influence on ways of life in both the past and present. Standard-driven content is made accessible by age-appropriate text and engaging images. Readers have additional opportunities to learn about the state’s wonderful wilderness through visually appealing graphic organizers, informative sidebars, and more.
Backroads Of Texas
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Author : Gary Clark
language : en
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Release Date : 2016-11
Backroads Of Texas written by Gary Clark and has been published by Voyageur Press (MN) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11 with Photography categories.
Backroads of Texas lets you see incredible natural, historic, and bizarre sights only visible while exploring these 30 dusty, hidden, backroads.
Study Of Cultural Landscapes In Texas
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Author : Dorothy Joelle Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Study Of Cultural Landscapes In Texas written by Dorothy Joelle Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Cultural landscapes categories.
The object of this thesis is to understand the status of preservation of Texas cultural landscapes and encourage policy recommendations. To do this, the thesis examines the procedure for nominating cultural landscapes in Texas for the National Register of Historic Places (NR), a program administered by the National Park Service (NPS) through state-level agencies. In Texas, the Texas Historical Society (THC) administers NR programs under supervision of the State Historic Preservation Officer. In the 1950s, the term cultural landscape rarely appeared in print. However, beginning with the work of J.B. Jackson, an independent writer and landscape scholar, cultural landscape studies have come to inspire design professions and preservationists developing a new admiration for the vernacular landscape and its significance (Wilson 2003). By 1981, cultural landscapes had become recognized by the National Park Service (NPS) as a specific resource type (Longstreth 2008). This meant that cultural landscapes were identified as tangible items reflecting multigenerational connections to the land. As a result, cultural landscapes became a validated category on the National Register of Historic Places, extending the recognition of these cultural places into the professional and public realms (Longstreth 2008). The Texas Historical Commission (THC), in coordination with the national register, recognizes cultural landscapes within the state of Texas under the category of historic properties. Promoting the documentation of these resources within the state and nominating their listings on the National Register are both a goal and an issue, according to the THC's 2020 Preservation Vision (THC 2013). This means that, although cultural landscapes have become an important application within the field of preservation, they are still a largely undeveloped classification and their status undefined (THC 2013). Currently, the THC uses criteria developed for the consideration of buildings and structures to examine its cultural landscapes. Historical significance and the integrity of a site determine the ability of a "historic" property to be listed on the NR (THC 2013). This thesis appraises three case studies within the state of Texas, identifying within those studies how a landscape's significance and integrity is determined according to current preservation standards and what their place is within the preservation movement. Concentrating on cultural landscapes acknowledged by the national register, the sites selected include: Heritage Park Plaza, an existing historic property on the National Registry; the Old Spanish Highway, a draft nomination for the registry; and Bonham State Park, an unlisted cultural landscape, examined as a potential site for the registry. Because each of these cases falls within a different part of the nomination process, they lend a perspective of all stages of the historic property registration procedure. The sites were chosen based on the thoroughness of their reports, their recognition as significance parts of Texas' history, and their ability to represent a range of cultural landscapes. Examination of these sites lends answers to: what is the status of cultural landscapes in Texas within the preservation movement, what the process for nomination is, and what future recommendations for cultural landscapes in Texas are. Among the issues identified was a need for a common language to help describe cultural landscapes. Recommendations included an increased leadership role of landscape architects, who have been trained to read the landscape, in identifying cultural landscapes. As well as incentives such as tax credits to promote the recognition of cultural landscapes, similar to the ones provided to buildings recognized on the national register.