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About Ecoregions — Houston Wilderness
The Gulf-Houston Region is situated in one of the most ecologically diverse major urban areas in the country. The forests, prairies, savannahs, bayous, bottomlands, coastlines and ocean around Gulf-Ho...
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Ecosystem Services Primer — Houston Wilderness
Second Edition
By Deborah January-Bevers, Lindsey Roche, and Lauren Harper
ABSTRACT: Natural landscapes serve our well-being in a variety of ways including water purification, flood protection, hurri...
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Big Thicket — Houston Wilderness
ABOUT THE BIG THICKET
The original Big Thicket of Texas covered between 2 million and 3 million acres in what is now mapped as the Piney Woods and Coastal Marsh ecoregions of the state. People have ca...
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Network Partners — Houston Wilderness
Houston Wilderness
HOUSTON WILDERNESS is a broad-based alliance of business, environmental and government interests that acts in concert to Create opportunities to preserve 10 ecoregions by Convening,...
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Estuaries and Bays — Houston Wilderness
ABOUT ESTUARIES AND BAYS
Where land becomes sea, and freshwater meets salt, is one of the most productive biological systems. Known as the “nurseries of the sea,” estuaries are the ocean’s protected a...
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Trinity Bottomlands — Houston Wilderness
ABOUT THE TRINITY BOTTOMLANDS
Established in 1994, the 25,000-acre Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge is a remnant of what was once a much larger, frequently flooded, bottomland hardwood forest. V...