The Texas Landscape Project

The Texas Landscape Project
Author: David A. Todd
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1623493722

The Texas Landscape Project explores conservation and ecology in Texas by presenting a highly visual and deeply researched view of the widespread changes that have affected the state as its population and economy have boomed and as Texans have worked ever harder to safeguard its bountiful but limited natural resources. Covering the entire state, from Pineywoods bottomlands and Panhandle playas to Hill Country springs and Big Bend canyons, the project examines a host of familiar and not so familiar environmental issues. A companion volume to The Texas Legacy Project, this book tracks specific environmental changes that have occurred in Texas using more than 300 color maps, expertly crafted by cartographer Jonathan Ogren, and over 100 photographs that coalesce to fashion a broad portrait of the modern Texas landscape. The rich data, compiled by author David Todd, are presented in clearly written yet marvelously detailed text that gives historical context and contemporary statistics for environmental trends connected to the land, water, air, energy, and built world of the second-largest and second-most populated state in the nation. An engaging read for any environmentalist or conscientious citizen, The Texas Landscape Project provides a true sense of the grand scope of the Lone Star State and the high stakes of protecting it. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

The Texas Landscape Project

The Texas Landscape Project
Author: David A. Todd
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2016-06-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1623493730

The Texas Landscape Project explores conservation and ecology in Texas by presenting a highly visual and deeply researched view of the widespread changes that have affected the state as its population and economy have boomed and as Texans have worked ever harder to safeguard its bountiful but limited natural resources. Covering the entire state, from Pineywoods bottomlands and Panhandle playas to Hill Country springs and Big Bend canyons, the project examines a host of familiar and not so familiar environmental issues. A companion volume to The Texas Legacy Project, this book tracks specific environmental changes that have occurred in Texas using more than 300 color maps, expertly crafted by cartographer Jonathan Ogren, and over 100 photographs that coalesce to fashion a broad portrait of the modern Texas landscape. The rich data, compiled by author David Todd, are presented in clearly written yet marvelously detailed text that gives historical context and contemporary statistics for environmental trends connected to the land, water, air, energy, and built world of the second-largest and second-most populated state in the nation. An engaging read for any environmentalist or conscientious citizen, The Texas Landscape Project provides a true sense of the grand scope of the Lone Star State and the high stakes of protecting it. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

The Texas Legacy Project

The Texas Legacy Project
Author: David A. Todd
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1603442006

A city dweller’s vacant lot . . . A rancher's back forty . . . A hiker's favorite park . . . When the places that we love are threatened, we can be stirred to action. In Texas, people of all stripes and backgrounds have fought hard to safeguard the places they hold dear. To find and preserve these stories of courage and perseverance, the Conservation History Association of Texas launched the Texas Legacy Project in 1998, traveling thousands of miles to conduct hundreds of interviews with people from all over the state. These remarkable oral histories now reside in an incomparable online and physical archive of video, audio, text, and other materials that record these extraordinary efforts by veteran conservationists and ordinary citizens to preserve the natural legacy of Texas. This book holds stories from more than sixty people who represent a variety of causes, communities, and walks of life—from a West Texas grocer fighting nuclear waste to an Austin lobbyist pressing for green energy. Each speaks from the heart in personal reminiscences and first-hand accounts of battles fought for land and wildlife, for public health, and for a voice in media and politics. These impassioned accounts remind us of the importance of protecting and conserving the natural resources in our own backyards . . . wherever they may be. Records of the archive are available at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. Five dollars of the cost of this book goes to environmentally friendly materials and processes.

Principles of Ecological Landscape Design

Principles of Ecological Landscape Design
Author: Travis Beck
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1597267023

This groundbreaking work explains key ecological concepts and their application to the design and management of sustainable landscapes. It covers topics from biogeography and plant selection to global change. Beck draws on real world cases where professionals have put ecological principles to use in the built landscape.

Texas Home Landscaping, Including Oklahoma, 4th Edition

Texas Home Landscaping, Including Oklahoma, 4th Edition
Author: Charles King Sadler
Publisher: Creative Homeowner
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-12-03
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781580115896

Texas Home Landscaping, Including Oklahoma 4th Edition is a newly updated edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning, best-selling series of regional home landscaping books. In this Texas landscape guide, readers will find inspiring ideas for making the home landscape more attractive and functional. The 48 featured designs are created by landscape professionals and use more than 200 native plants that thrive in the Oklahoma and Texas region. Detailed instructions for landscape projects, such as paths, patios, ponds, and arbors, are also included, along with step-by-step instructions. This edition offers new content on eco-friendly plants to support conservation, permaculture, the impact of climate change and measures to take, fire- and drought-resistant species, defensible space landscaping, and more.

Encyclopedia of Landscape Design

Encyclopedia of Landscape Design
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1465470786

Be inspired to imagine the garden of your dreams with this guide that will help you plan, build, and plant your perfect outdoor space. Whether you're aiming for a total redesign or targeting a specific area, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers fresh and achievable ideas for every gardener: grasp the fundamentals of landscape and garden design, find a style that's right for you, and create the structures and planting plans to bring your ideas to life. Produced by a team of award-winning horticultural experts, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers extensive design inspiration backed up with solid practical content, including step-by-step landscape structures and planting techniques.

Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners

Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners
Author: Carol Grove
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0820354813

When Sidney J. Hare (1860-1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888-1960) launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture and planning practice in the Midwest. Over time, their work became increasingly far-ranging, in both its geographical scope and its project types. Between 1924 and 1955, Hare & Hare commissions included fifty-four cemeteries in fifteen states; numerous city and state parks (seventeen in Missouri alone); more than fifteen subdivisions in Salt Lake City; the Denver neighborhood of Belcaro Park; the picturesque grounds of the Christian Science Sanatorium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; and the University of Texas at Austin among fifty-one college and university campuses. In Hare & Hare: Landscape Architects and City Planners Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein document the extraordinary achievements of this little-known firm and weave them into a narrative that spans from the birth of the late nineteenth-century "modern cemetery movement" to midcentury modernism. Through the figures of Sidney, a "homespun" amateur geologist who built a rustic family retreat called Harecliff, and his son Herbert, an urbane Harvard-trained landscape architect who traveled Europe and lived in a modern apartment building, Grove and Millstein chronicle the growth of the field from its amorphous Victorian beginnings to its coalescence as a profession during the first half of the twentieth century. Hare & Hare provides a unique and valuable parallel to studies of prominent East and West Coast landscape architecture firms--one that expands the reader's understanding of the history of American landscape architecture practice.

Ideas of Landscape

Ideas of Landscape
Author: Matthew Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1405178337

Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance. The first historical assessment of a critical period in archaeology Takes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition -- the ideological underpinnings of which come from English Romanticism, via the influence of the “father of landscape history”: W. G. Hoskins Argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of Romanticism Offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance

Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition

Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition
Author: Pat Sagui
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1607653974

Provides information for incorporating natural stone in a landscape and step-by-step instructions for a number of popular stone projects. Contains more than 335 color photos and 40 illustrations.