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Northern Post Oak Savanna, Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area, Anderson County (April 2017). Little Bear Creek, Hays County (October 2010). Signs of beaver ( Castor canadensis ) activity, gnawed tree trunk and burrowing in stream bank.
Area 1: Panhandle/High Plains Wildlife District [1] [2] includes five WMAs; Area 2: Prairies and Lakes [3] Area 3: Pineywoods [4] Area 4: Gulf Coast [5] Area 5: South Texas Plains [6] Area 6: Hill Country [7] Area 7: Big Bend Country [8] There is some confusion as there are also listed eight Wildlife Management Areas [9] that roughly coincide ...
Lake Athens is in the Texas Post Oak Savannah wildlife district. It has many types of trees including pecans, elms, oak, eastern red cedar, and walnuts.There are over 200 varieties of wildflowers at Lake Athens. The wildflower season begins in early spring and ends at the first frost of the year.
In addition, the park is part of the Post Oak Savannah, an ecological region of 8,500,000 acres (3,400,000 ha) of hilly lands that includes scattered oaks, mainly post oaks and blackjack oak. Most of this ecoregion is somewhat arid due to its clay soil, but the area in Bastrop is an exception.
Map of oak savanna distribution in North America. Although there are pockets of oak savanna almost anywhere in North America where oaks are present, there are three major oak savanna areas: 1) California, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon in the west; 2) Southwestern United States and northern Mexico; and 3) the prairie/forest border zone of the Midwestern United States.
The sandier areas often have more bluejack oak, post oak, and stunted pines. ... Pine savannah wetland in Big Thicket ... White Oak Creek Wildlife Management Area ...
Fayette County Reservoir is located within the Post Oak Savannah ecoregion in Texas. Habitat in the littoral zone is mainly natural and rocky shoreline. The water level is supplied and maintained by the Colorado River. [3] Its function as a power plant cooling reservoir increases water temperatures throughout the lake.
The Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion covers an area of 50,300 km 2 (19,400 sq mi), consisting of a main belt of 43,000 km 2 (17,000 sq mi) and two islands of tallgrass prairie grasslands southeast of the main Blackland Prairie belt; both the main belt and the islands extend northeast–southwest.