Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas - Paperback

by Joe C. Truett (Author), Daniel W. Lay (Author)

Winner, Ottis Lock Endowment Award for the best book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 1985
Texas Literary Festival Award for Nonfiction (Southwestern Booksellers Association & Dallas Times Herald), 1985
Annual Publication Award, Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society, 1984

The story of the land, wildlife, and ecology of East Texas.

Back Jacket

'This deceptively slender volume is three things: a how-to-book, an aesthetic feast and a moral tale.... To same a last remnant (of the forest) is a triumph, but it is a trump to be savored in sadness. Our ancestors found East Texas a land of beauty spots.' --'Dallas Morning News'

Author Biography

The authors of Land of Bears and Honey were both native East Texans. Joe C. Truett headed Truett Research, an organization that investigates the effects of people on the land; for the past twenty-five years he has conducted research on the ecological impacts of human actions. Daniel W. Lay worked for more than forty years as a wildlife biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.