Passport to Texas

The Texas Landscape Project

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This is Passport

The story of Texas conservation is a rich, evolving, and interconnected tale.

John Muir said back in 1911 or so: ‘When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.’

David Todd “connects the dots” through Texas’ land, water, energy, wildlife, and people in the atlas The Texas Landscape Project. To do so, he dipped into a vast reservoir of existing research.

There’s a lot of what we call ‘Big Data’ out there. And that means digital information that’s on the web that state agencies, federal bureaucracies, academic institutions, individual researchers, citizen scientists put out there. And a lot of it hasn’t been mapped yet. And some of those connections haven’t been explored as much as they might be, or shared with the public. And so we’re trying to do that with this book.

With graphics from co-author Jonathan Ogren, readers can visualize Texas’ conservation past, present and future.

We try to touch on environmental issues across the state. So, if you’re an East Texas resident, you may be interested in the stories about the Big Thicket. If you live down on the coast, you might be interested in the stories of the recovery of the brown pelican or Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle. Or, if you live out in the Big Bend, you might be curious about the recovery of the Bighorn Mountain Sheep. So, we try to give examples of important conservation efforts that have happened in your corner of the state. And I’m hoping that’ll be a nice place for folks to enter the book and maybe start to explore what’s in there.

The Texas Landscape Project at texaslandscape.org.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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