Environment of Louisiana: Natural History of Louisiana, Piney Woods, Lake Peigneur, 2008 New Orleans Oil Spill Book

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Natural History of Louisiana, Piney Woods, Lake Peigneur, 2008 New Orleans Oil Spill, List of Superfund Sites in Louisiana, Cancer Alley, Agriculture Street Landfill, Murphy Oil Spill (Chalmette, Louisiana). Excerpt: The Piney Woods is a terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma. These temperate coniferous forests are dominated by several species of pine as well as hardwoods including hickory and oak. The World Wide Fund for Nature considers the Piney Woods to be one of the critically endangered ecoregions of the United States. The Piney Woods cover an area of 140,900 square kilometres (54,400 sq mi) of eastern Texas, northwestern Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas and the southeastern corner of Oklahoma. They are bounded on the east by the Mississippi lowland forests, on the south by the Western Gulf coastal grasslands, on the west by the East Central Texas forests and the Texas blackland prairies, on the northwest by the Central forest-grasslands transition, and on the north by the Ozark Mountain forests. The region has heavy to moderate rainfall, with some places receiving over 60 inches (1,500 mm) of rain per year. Longleaf, Shortleaf and Loblolly Pines, along with Bluejack and Post Oaks, dominate sandhills. A well developed understory grows beneath the sparse canopy, and includes Yaupon Holly and Flowering Dogwood. Pine savannas consist of scattered Longleaf and Loblolly Pines alongside Black Tupelos, Sweetgums, and Sweetbay Magnolias. Other common trees in this ecoregion include Eastern Redbud, Southern Sugar Maple, and American Elm. American Wisteria, a vine, may cover groves of trees A creek running through... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=776697