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The following is excerpted from Wild Vision Adventures In Observation, A Monthly Newsletter for Texas Wildlife Interpreters, Published by Wild Vision, June 1995 Volume 1, Issue 1.

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Endangered Ecosystems in Texas

Endangered Ecosystems in Texas:

">99.9% loss of prairie in Texas...;
89% of 1.4 million ha. of virgin forest in the Big Thicket, lost by 1960’s...;
95% loss of native habitat in lower delta of Rio Grande River; remains are highly fragmented...; 52% loss of wetlands...;
>97% loss of Gulf Coast pitcher plant bogs...;
93% loss of seagrass meadows in Galveston Bay."

Reed F. Noss, Edward T. LaRoe III, and J. Michael Scott. Endangered

Ecosystems of the United States: A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation.

(U.S. Department of the Interior--National Biological Service Report #28). Washington, D.C.: Publications unit, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1995

Natural History of North Central Texas Index