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TEXAS ALMANAC.-1952-1953.
pacity of 20,000,000 seedlings annually. Seed-
lings are sold at cost and include several
species of pine and hardwood.
Of particular interest is the increased de-
mand the public has made for forest tree
seedlings. During the 1946 season, total pro-
duction of pine and hardwood seedlings was
only 1,201,000; 1947 production of all species
totaled 16,045,000: Approximately 17,812,000
seedlings were produced in 1950. There are
indications of continued high demand for
planting stock.
Public Information.
Through its office at College Station. the
Texas Forest Service conducts a program of
education in woodland management, tree
study and forest appreciation. Interesting
booklets on forestry are available, as well as
films, slides, photographs and other visual
aids. Much of the material has been designed
for schoolroom use. Information on these ma-
terials may be obtained from the Texas For-
est Service, College Station.
UNIQUE TREE AREAS
There is a wide growth in relatively unde-
fined tree areas throughout Texas. Across the
Coastal Plain along streams there are corri-
dors of hardwoods, .including a variety of
oaks, ash and hickory, which attain consider-
able size and are cut and sawed. The pecan,
the state tree of Texas. is found only along
streams, but is more prevalent in a fairly
well-defined belt along the upper and middle
courses of the Trinity, Brazos. Colorado,
Guadalupe, Nueces and tributaries.
There is a unique Cypress Belt (in addition
to the cypress found In East Texas) along the
spring-fed streams of the Edwards Plateau in
Gillespie, Johnson, Kerr, Bandera, Medina
and other counties of that vicinity.
Notable among the tree regions of Texas is
the Big Thicket, a not very definitely bounded
area in the southern part of the East Texas
forest region. It centers in northern Hardin
and southern Polk and Tyler Counties with
a total area of about 2,000,000 acres. Prevail-
ing timbers are water oak, tupelo, black gumn,
Willow, magnolia and cypress. The palmetto,
water lily, hyacinth and rare orchids are
found. The wild grape, wandering Jew and
many other types of vines form a jungle
almost impossible to penetrate. Hence its
isolation. The Alabama-Coushatta Indian res-
ervation is in the northern part of the Big
Thicket. (See p. 47.)
One of the oddities of Texas tree growth is
the Southern pine area centered in eastern
Bastrop County, lying isolated about eighty
miles west of the main pine belt, and known
as the Lost Pines. Most of this area is now
included in the Bastrop State Park. Another
limited but interesting plant-life group is the
growth of palms near the mouth of the Rio
Grande. From this group possibly the Rio
Grande received its original name of Rio de
las Palmas from the Garay expedition in 1519.
Western Pine and Oak.
In the highlands of the trans-Pecos area,
especially the Guadalupe, Davis and Chisos
Mountains, Douglas fir, pinon pine, Rocky
Mountain white pine, one or two species of
maple and some varieties of the western oak
are found. In the Chisos Mountains are some
rare species of juniper not known to exist
elsewhere These green mountain areas are
isinds in another respect also, contrasting
strpgely with thhe desert vegetation that lies
about them.
Another plant-life island is the palmetto bog
near Ottine, Gonzales County, where a num-
ber of subtropical plants have been found far
north of their natural regions of growth. The
area is named from the palmetto found here.
Such exotic plants as wild orchid grow here.
The area has been incorporated In the Pal-
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