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Houston: a soils and watershed story The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without
The Dirt on Watersheds: The Quest for Healthy Soils October 30, 2019
Carolyn White Conservation Director
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” – Wendell Berry
Houston
sediments transported and reworked and during periods of lower sea level
further out into Gulf
now areas of wetlands
landscape – dunes and isolated prairie potholes
grained, low permeability sand, silts and clays of Beaumont Formation
some petrified wood with iron
deltaic plain deposits, entrenched by streams
Willis Fm Lissie Fm Beaumont Fm
Somewhat to poorly drained Somewhat to Poorly drained Poorly to moderately drained
Big Thicket Coastal Prairie Savanna Pineywoods Marsh Bottom
Bottom- land
A river that is able to maintain its – dimension, – pattern, and – profile without aggrading or degrading its channel bed
Dimension Pattern Profile
Land Cover
Land Cover and Hydrology
Bayou Greenways
Hydrology
Soils
Vegetation
December 1978
January 1995
February 2004
April 2006
February 2010
January 2014
February 2017
April 2019
Infrastructure
Research & Education