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  2. Geography of Texas - Wikipedia

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    With a large supply of natural resources, Texas is a major agricultural and industrial state, producing oil, cattle, sheep, and cotton. The state also produces poultry, eggs, dairy products, greenhouse and nursery products, wheat, hay, rice, sugar cane, and peanuts, and a range of fruits and vegetables.

  3. List of Texas Wildlife Management Areas - Wikipedia

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    Texas Wildlife Management Areas are divided into seven regions of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department with the goal of managing and conserving the natural and cultural resources of Texas. There are 714,094 acres (288,984 ha) under management of the Division of Wildlife often referred to as a WMA.

  4. Texas Water Development Board - Wikipedia

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    TxGIO was established by the Texas Legislature in 1968 as the Texas Water-Oriented Data Bank. In 1972, after four years of growth and diversification, it was renamed the Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS). In 2023, the 88th Texas Legislature officially renamed TNRIS to the Texas Geographic Information Office. [2]

  5. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Wikipedia

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    In 1983, the Texas legislature passed the Wildlife Conservation Act, giving the department the authority for managing fish and wildlife resources in all Texas counties. The department operates 95 state parks and historic sites , 51 wildlife management areas, eight fish hatcheries, and numerous field offices statewide.

  6. Geology of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.

  7. Caddo Lake - Wikipedia

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    The Channel was used by steamboats to reach the port at Jefferson, until water levels fell after the removal of the Great Raft.. Caddo Lake has been used by Native Americans for hundreds of years, but substantial commercial development would only begin with invention of the steamboat and US annexation of Louisiana and Texas by treaty (Texas is the only State in the United States to have joined ...

  8. List of National Natural Landmarks in Texas - Wikipedia

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    High Plains Natural Area: 1980: Randall: federal/US Fish & Wildlife Service One of the best developed, least disturbed natural shortgrass climax communities remaining in the Great Plains. Part of Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

  9. Piney Woods - Wikipedia

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    The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km 2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma.