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ENVIRONMENTAL HEADLINES, MAY 10 – 16

SEA TURTLE NESTS AT SURFSIDE Brazosport Facts 5/14/08 Waddling ashore from the choppy seas Tuesday afternoon, an endangered sea turtle dropped her motherly cargo – a nest of 109 eggs – all under the protecting eyes of the village’s mayor, public works director and police officers. TEXAS’ 1ST WEST NILE CASE THIS YEAR IN MONTGOMERY CO. Houston Chronicle 5/15/08 The…

ENJOY OUR REGION’S ENVIRONMENTAL DIVERSITY

By Ella Tyler Texas has a great variety of rainfalls – 8 to 56″; elevations – sea level to 8500+’; and soil types; and therefore has about 5,500 plant species. The state has ten different environmental (or Vegetational) regions – Pineywoods, Gulf Prairies and Marshes, Post Oak Savannah, Blackland Prairies, Cross Timbers and Prairies, South Texas Plains, Edwards Plateau, Rolling…

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