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Woody Plants of the Big Bend and Trans-Pecos: A Field Guide to Common Browse for Wildlife (Myrna and David K. Langford Books on Working Lands) Paperback – February 4, 2016
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The Trans-Pecos region of Texas is home to a variety of big game species, including desert mule deer, pronghorn, desert bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer, elk, feral hog, and javelina; several species of exotics, such as aoudad, axis deer, and blackbuck antelope; and domestic livestock that includes cattle, horses, goats, sheep, and bison.
Prepared by a team of range specialists at the Borderlands Research Institute in Alpine, Texas, this field guide will allow the area’s ranch managers, private landowners, resource professionals, students, and other outdoor enthusiasts to identify the key woody plants that serve as valuable forage for these animals.
Encompassing 18 West Texas counties, with application in like habitats in the western Hill Country and southern Rolling Plains as well as in northern Mexico and eastern New Mexico, the book provides a thorough introduction to the natural features of the region and descriptions, nutrition values, and management prescriptions for 84 species of browse plants.
In addition to informing readers about the diet of the region’s large animals, this fully illustrated, user-friendly reference also intends to inspire the continued good stewardship of the land they inhabit.
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTexas A&M University Press
- Publication dateFebruary 4, 2016
- Dimensions6 x 0.7 x 8.7 inches
- ISBN-101623493536
- ISBN-13978-1623493530
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"This book will fill a gap in Texas plant books. Woody Plants of the Big Bend and Trans-Pecos will be an important contribution to wildlife management in the region. There are no similar books like this one. This concise, informative and well-illustrated book will be indispensable for landowners, professionals, students or anyone interested in the practical habitat value of common Trans Pecos shrubs." — Steve Nelle, former USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service wildlife biologist -- Steve Nelle Published On: 2014-12-09
“Woody plants perform valuable functions in a desert ecosystem known by this fourth-generation Texan as 'The Trans-Pecos.' This book will prove to be invaluable for anyone who calls this region home or has spent any time there at all. Louis Harveson has added immensely to our body of knowledge about these plants that hold the world of the Trans-Pecos together.” —Fred C. Bryant, Leroy G. Denman Jr. Endowed Director of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville -- Fred C. Bryant Published On: 2015-08-24
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- Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
- Publication date : February 4, 2016
- Language : English
- Print length : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1623493536
- ISBN-13 : 978-1623493530
- Item Weight : 1.08 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.7 x 8.7 inches
- Part of series : Myrna and David K. Langford Books on Working Lands
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,044,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,790 in Botany (Books)
- #1,865 in Biology of Wildlife
- #43,914 in Engineering (Books)
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Dr. Louis A. Harveson is the founder and director of the Borderlands Research Institute and holds the Dan Allen Hughes, Jr., Endowed Directorship. Since 1998, Dr. Harveson has served as a faculty member at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas where his research program has focused on the ecology and management of large mammals, upland gamebirds, and predators. Harveson’s research efforts have focused on the borderlands of Texas-Mexico including Gulf Coast Prairies, South Texas Brush Country, and the Trans-Pecos Mountains and Basins. An underlying theme to Harveson’s research has been on conservation of natural resources on private lands.
Harveson received a B.S. in Wildlife Management from Texas Tech University, his M.S. in Range and Wildlife Management from Texas A&M University-Kingsville where he worked with northern bobwhites, and received his Ph.D. in Wildlife Science from the Joint Ph. D. program at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University where he studied mountain lions in south Texas.
Harveson serves on numerous regional and statewide conservation committees and presently serves as Second Vice-President of Programs for Texas Wildlife Association. Harveson is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and an active member of The Wildlife Society at the national, state, and university level.






