The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern
A creek running through the Piney Woods in Northeast Texas.
Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea), Fort Bend County, Texas, USA (October 2020)
Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus), locality unknown (August 2019)
American woodcock (Scolopax minor) Essex, Ontario, Canada (March 2017)
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 o
Piney Woods
…are dominated by several species of pine as well as hardwoods including hickory and oak. Historically the most dense part of this forest region was the Big Thicket though the lumber industry dramatically reduced the forest concentration in this area and throughout the Piney Woods during the 19th and 20th centuries…
Bald cypresses growing out of the water in the Beaumont Unit
Geological formations (diagonal center) of the Big Thicket Basin and the epochs in which they were formed (lower right). This is a generalized illustration and it is not accurate in scale or proportion.
Longleaf pine upland habitat. Big Thicket National Preserve, Turkey Creek Unit, Tyler Co. Texas; 1 May 2020
Arid sandyland habitat with longleaf pine trees (Pinus palustris) and Louisiana yucca (Yucca louisianensis) growing among the sparse groundcover. Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary, Hardin Co. Texas, USA; 6 November 2019