Welcome to LandScope Texas
The LandScope America website is a work in progress. In addition to comprehensive nationwide information, like much of what you can already find via the map viewer, we will include extensive state-by-state information, found on state home pages like this one. Because Texas is one of many states where we are still working to develop all of the needed maps, stories and other content, currently you’ll find only summary information here. For an example of completed state content, visit the home pages of our five pilot states: Colorado, Florida, Maine, Virginia and Washington.
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Conservation Overview
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Conservation Overview
Texas is big and, geographically speaking, well positioned to capture a great diversity of plants, animals and ecological systems. It's also expected to capture a significant growth in its human population in the next twenty years--growth that will exacerbate the problems of habitat fragmentation and water availability already threatening the state's natural ecosystems. Fortunately, organizations and landowners throughout the Lone Star State are creating a comprehensive network of conservation lands that will benefit wildlife and people.
Conservation Priorities in Texas
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Texas Wildlife Action Plan
Texas' 250,000 square miles contain ten distinct ecoregions, from desert in the western portion of the state to dense forests in the east, and include 22 major river basins and 367 miles of coastline. The state ranks second in the nation in terms of its biodiversity. With diversity and size come great challenges to conserving the state's tens of thousands of wildlife species and the many habitats they depend on for their survival.
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