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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 ...
Nelson Farms Preserve encompasses more than 1,700 acres, of which 200 acres still operates as a working rice farm. Cypress Creek flows through the preserve and the combination of habitat types attracts waterfowl, waterbirds , migratory songbirds , raptors , beaver, white-tailed deer and other wildlife.
Cypress Bayou is the name applied to a series of wetlands at the western edge of Caddo Lake, in and around Jefferson, Texas, making up part of the largest Cypress forest in the world. The bayou is divided into three areas—each part of the watershed of a small river or creek— Little Cypress , Big Cypress , and Black Cypress .
A wetland (aerial view) Wetland conservation is aimed at protecting and preserving areas of land including marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens that are covered by water seasonally or permanently due to a variety of threats from both natural and anthropogenic hazards. Some examples of these hazards include habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species.
Located 2 miles east of Seymour on U.S. Highway 50, the refuge includes 7,724 acres of beautiful hardwood trees and wetlands. Muscatatuck is home to over 280 species of birds with special emphasis ...
The Wetlands Geodatabase and the Wetlands Mapper, as an Internet discovery portal, provide technological tools that allow the integration of large relational databases with spatial information and map-like displays. The information is made available to an array of federal, state, tribal, and local governments and the public.
The preserve was established in 1974 under 16 U.S. Code § 698 - Big Thicket National Preserve "...to assure the preservation, conservation, and protection of the natural, scenic, and recreational values of a significant portion of the Big Thicket area in the State of Texas..." [39] Since the preserve's inception, the Conservation Fund has ...
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge is the largest protected area of natural habitat left in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.The 120,000-acre (49,000 ha) refuge is located almost entirely in Cameron County, Texas, 25 mi (40 km) east of Harlingen, [2] although a very small part of its northernmost point extends into southern Willacy County.