Texas Blackland Prairies
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The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after
Clymer Meadow Preserve
Agriculture in Van Zandt County, Texas in 1904
Ashe Juniper tree
Two young bobcats (Lynx rufus) in a tree, photographed in the Plano, Texas area (29 June 2012)
Edwards Plateau
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The Edwards Plateau is a geographic region forming the crossroads of Central, South, and West Texas, United States. It is named in honor of Haden Edwards. It is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the so
Texas Blackland Prairies
…area and southward to the vicinity of San Antonio, Bexar County. The central forest-grasslands transition lies to the north and northwest, and the Edwards Plateau savanna and the Tamaulipan mezquital lie to the southwest. The larger of the two islands is the Fayette Prairie, encompassing 17,000 km2 (6,600 sq mi), and the…
Edwards Plateau terrain as seen from US 277 between Del Rio and Sonora
Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg by Hermann Lungkwitz, 1864, oil on canvas
San Saba River near Sloan, San Saba County (9 May 2014)
Wildflowers on ranchland, State Highway 965, Llano County (13 April 2012)