Texas Wildlife Viewing Guide

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Summary: 142 Accessible Viewing Sites Across Texas - Useful Guide
Review: This inexpensive Texas guidebook, like the other state guides in this series, is intended to provide quality wildlife viewing and educational opportunities to the general public without endangering wildlife habitats. This specific Texas guidebook is a joint effort by the Texas Wildlife and Parks Department, Defenders of Wildlife (a non-profit organization), the US Forest Service, the Texas General Land office, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and other conservation agencies.

Each site includes a general description of the wildlife abundance, viewing information, directions, and land ownership. Texas is divided into ten geographical regions; maps illustrate the locations of all sites within each region. A wildlife index helps the reader find sites which have a higher probability for encountering specific mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and even insects. Color photos are located throughout this 160-page guide.

Much of this viewing information can be derived from other sources, but it is not often found in such a handy, convenient format. I keep my copy in our car along with a remarkably detailed Texas atlas, The Roads of Texas. On several occasions this little book has helped us discover fascinating locations that we would have bypassed otherwise. It has paid for itself many times over.

I recommend that you buy a used copy if you can not locate a new one. The viewing information does not become quickly outdated.