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Francis E. Abernethy (Edited by) : Tales From The Big Thicket

University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1977

ISBN 9780292736368

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CD5 - A 5th printing hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed Francis Abernethy to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, some small tears and open tears on the edges, corners and some sides, scattered scratches, rubbing, and scuffing, fold/crease on the front flap, tanning, and light shelf wear. Book cocked and lightly bowed, some bumped corners and dents, wrinkling on the spine edges, previous owner's name written on the front free endpaper, light tanning and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 244 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. The Big Thicket is the name given to a somewhat imprecise region of a heavily forested area of Southeast Texas in the United States. This area represents a portion of the mixed pine-hardwood forests or "Piney Woods" of the Southeast US. The National Park Service established the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) within the region in 1974 and it is recognized as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. Although the diversity of animals in the area is high for a temperate zone with over 500 vertebrates, it is the complex mosaic of ecosystems and plant diversity that is particularly remarkable. Biologists have identified at least eight, and up to eleven, ecosystems in the Big Thicket area. More than 160 species of trees and shrubs, 800 herbs and vines, and 340 types of grasses are known to occur in the Big Thicket, and estimates as high as over 1000 flowering plant species and 200 trees and shrubs have been made, plus ferns, carnivorous plants, and more. The Big Thicket has historically been the most dense forest region in Texas. Native Americans are known to have lived and hunted in the area nomadically, but did not establish permanent settlements there before the Alabama-Coushatta settled in the northeast about 1780. Spanish explorers and missionaries generally avoided the area and routed their roads around it. Logging in the late 19th and 20th centuries dramatically reduced the forest concentration. Efforts to save the Big Thicket from the devastation of oil and lumber industries started as early as the 1920s with the founding of the East Texas Big Thicket Association by Richard Elmer Jackson. Conservatively the area occupies all of Hardin County, most of Polk, and Tyler Counties, and parts of Jasper, Liberty and San Jacinto Counties, including areas between the Neches River on the east, the Trinity River on the west, Pine Island Bayou on the south, to the higher elevations and older Eocene geological formations to the north. Broader interpretations have included the area between the Sabine River on the east and the San Jacinto River on the west including much of Montgomery, Newton, Trinity, and Walker Counties, as well. Several attempts to define the boundaries of the Big Thicket have been made, including a biological survey in 1936 which included over 3,350,000 acres (13,600 km2) covering 14 counties. A later botanical based study in 1972 included a region of over 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km2). This same habitat extends into Louisiana and eastward.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

5th Printing
Signed by Author

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