Myrna and David K. Langford Books on Working Lands – serie
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Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies
A Field Guide
Av Jim Weber, Lynne M. Weber m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
363 kr
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While many growers focus on attracting adult butterflies to their gardens, fewer know about the plants that caterpillars need to survive. Native host plants—wildflowers, trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, and sedges—not only provide a site for the butterfly to lay its eggs, they also provide a ready …
Herping Texas
The Quest for Reptiles and Amphibians
Av Michael A. Smith, Clint King
Häftad, 2018
353 kr
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Coiled beneath discarded trash or rocky slabs, basking along river edges, and tucked into rock cuts beside the highway, reptiles and amphibians constantly surround us. While many people go out of their way to avoid snakes or shudder at the thought of touching a toad, herpers take to the field armed …
Raptors of Texas
A Natural History of Diurnal Birds of Prey
Inbunden, 2022
509 kr
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Raptors - birds of prey that hunt during the day - include easily recognizable birds like eagles, hawks, or falcons. They may be seen perched on highway signs, electrical poles, or soaring overheard in urban and rural spaces across North America. Here, avian ecology and raptor experts Craig …
Native Host Plants for Texas Moths
A Field Guide
Häftad, 2022
328 kr
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While day-flying butterflies have long captured the attention of nature enthusiasts, moth species outnumber butterfly species by about fifteen to one, with many being overlooked due to their mostly nocturnal habits. Although they are far less noticeable to us, moths are essential to many other …
Boggy Slough
A Forest, a Family, and a Foundation for Land Conservation
Inbunden, 2022
524 kr
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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 more than …
Replenishing Our Hills
Protecting Lands in the Heart of the Hill Country
Av Brent Evans
Inbunden, 2024
754 kr
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The Hill Country, “sweet spot of Texas,” is in danger of being loved to death, or so it seems. The good news is that all the growth and development has triggered some serious conservation efforts. Folks are joining forces to protect the lands and waters of this extraordinary region—families have …
Land Stewardship for Birds
A Guide for Central Texas
Av W. Rufus Stephens, Jan Wrede
Häftad, 2023
537 kr
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In this revised and re-titled edition of Attracting Birds in the Texas Hill Country: A Guide to Land Stewardship, biologist Rufus Stephens and educator Jan Wrede provide a comprehensive update to their popular and practical handbook that focuses on habitat improvement to benefit birds on properties …
Lessons from Leopold
Learning from the Land
Inbunden, 2024
398 kr
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Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), arguably best known for his posthumous A Sand County Almanac (1949), is considered by many the father of modern wildlife management. He developed and described many of the concepts of conservation, ecology, and stewardship of natural resources still used today. Leopold was …
Art and Science of Private Land Stewardship
Av Roel R. Lopez, Jenny Cearley Sanders m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
392 kr
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"Anyone can take responsibility for a place," Simon Roosevelt, great-great grandson of the avid conservationist President Theodore Roosevelt, writes in his foreword. "How persistently and well a conservationist pursues responsibility, connection, and the imperatives of use and care is as much a …
Woody Plants of the Big Bendand Trans-Pecos
A Field Guide to Common Browse for Wildlife
Häftad, 2016
328 kr
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The Trans-Pecos region of Texas is home to a variety of big gamespecies, including desert mule deer, pronghorn, desert bighornsheep, white-tailed deer, elk, feral hog, and javelina; several speciesof exotics, such as aoudad, axis deer, and blackbuck antelope; anddomestic livestock that includes …
Seasons at Selah
The Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve
Inbunden, 2018
467 kr
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In 1969, J. David Bamberger bought what he described as “the sorriest piece of land” in the Texas Hill Country for the specific purpose of restoring the degraded landscape. Today, Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve is one of the largest habitat restoration projects in the state—5,500 acres—and serves …
