Since Roy Bedichek's influential Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, no book has attempted to explore the uniqueness of Texas nature, or reflected the changes in the human landscape that have accelerated since Bedichek's time. Pride of Place updates Bedichek's discussion by acknowledging the increased urbanization and the loss of wildspace in today's state. It joins other recent collections of regional nature writing while demonstrating what makes Texas uniquely diverse. These fourteen essays are held together by the story of Texas pride, the sense that from West Texas to the Coastal Plains, we and the landscape are important and worthy of pride, if not downright bravado. This book addresses all the major regions of Texas. Beginning with Roy Bedichek's essay "Still Water," it includes Carol Cullar and Barbara "Barney" Nelson on the Rio Grande region of West Texas, John Graves's evocative "Kindred Spirits" on Central Texas, Joe Nick Patoski's celebration of Hill Country springs, Pete Gunter on the Piney Woods, David Taylor on North Texas, Gary Clark and Gerald Thurmond on the Coastal Plains, Ray Gonzales and Marian Haddad on El Paso, Stephen Harrigan and Wyman Meinzer on West Texas, and Naomi Shihab Nye on urban San Antonio. This anthology will …

In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes. "The book is a storehouse of history, down-to-earth information, good humor, leg-pulling spoofs, tall tales and all kinds of serendipitous gems . . . Readers inclined to fantasy might like to think of two giant Texas folklorists of the past, J. Frank Dobie and Mody Boatright, nodding and winking their approval of Big Thicket Legacy."—Smithsonian

Base Visit Trip Report June 3, 2005 - Ft. Monmouth, NJ.

Report Given to Commissioners on BRAC Tanker Actions.

Base Visit Trip Report - Air Force Reserve Center, Denver, CO.

BRAC Commission Material - GAO Report Summary for Commissioners.

Base Visit Book - Write Patterson Air Force Base (Air Force Institute of Technology), OH.

Contains media briefing book for Hill Air Force Base, UT

General - Media Briefing Book - New England - New London, CT; Portsmouth, NH; Brunswick, ME.

General Counsel - Official Edits to BRAC Final Report.

Base Visit Book (1st Visit) Ft. Monmouth, NJ.

1995 BRAC Commission Final Report to the President.

Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission 1993 Report to the President.

Base Visit Book - Ft. Belvoir, VA.

General Counsel - Errata and Technical Corrections to Final Report and Final Deliberations.

CRS Report Re: Judicial Review for Military Installations.

Contains the Base Visit Report for Air Force Personnel Center Denver, CO

Contains Overseas Basing Commission Reports

General Counsel - Final Report Timeline.

"The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA)has compiled this guide to provide you with information about agricultural diversification through nature tourism. It is intended as a starting place for people interested in establishing or expanding an agriculture-based nature tourism business, and it includes many references and resources for additional information" (title page).

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 13, 2005 to December 20, 2005.

Interview with Aletha Barsanti regarding her experiences as the wife of U. S. Army General Olinto Barsanti. They married in 1942. She remembers their courtship in San Antonio; their assignments in Europe, Japan, and Washington, D.C.; raising their children; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general; military protocol for the wives of general officers; and his one-year tour in the Vietnam War as the commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died in May 1973.

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of King County, Texas.

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Lee County, Texas.