CONSERVATION PRIORITIES FOR TEXAS

A Guide to Ten Threatened Natural Areas
in the Lone Star State

NATURAL AREA PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION

and

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE

[Introduction: Natural Areas-Natural Assets]
[How can we protect natural areas?]
[What places should be conserved?]
[Longleaf pine forests and savannas]
[East Texas hardwood forests]
[East Texas bogs]
[Tallgrass prairies]
[Lower Rio Grande Valley brush habitats]
[Hill Country canyon forests]
[Hill Country rivers and springs]
[Llano Uplift granite country]
[Panhandle playa lakes]
[West Texas desert springs]
[Other unique plant habitats]
[References and Acknowledgements]