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T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about crafts, stories about vampires, stories about peyote ceremonies, prison folklore, folk songs, and other miscellaneous folk tales.

Date: 2017

Creator: Texas Folklore Society

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Press

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The Intervention of Human Modifications on Plant and Tree Species in the Landscape of the LBJ National Grasslands

An analysis utilizing both ArcGIS and ethnographic interviews from private land owners and environmental professionals examined how man-made landscape changes affected plant and tree species in the LBJ National Grasslands in Wise County, Texas north of Decatur. From the late 1800s to the Dust Bowl Era the land was used for crop production and cattle grazing resulting in erosion and loss of soil nutrients. The research indicated by 2001 that cattle grazing and population increase resulted in lan… more

Date: May 2015

Creator: Lang, Brett M.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

Water Quality Corridor Management for Restoration (WQCM-R) Modeling Dataset

The dataset was developed to support research intended to develop a spatially-explicit model that prioritizes riparian areas in terms of potential for ecosystem restoration specifically to improve water quality downstream of the riparian area, and ultimately improve drinking water quality. The model was developed and then tested on the Lewisville Lake watershed (north central Texas, just north of Dallas, Texas, USA). The dataset contains environmental data for 90 sub-watersheds that form the ov… more

Date: June 10, 2019

Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F.

Item Type: Dataset

Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Alfred Edgar Greer, October 31, 2019

Transcript of an interview with Alfred Edgar Greer, North Texas State College and Geezle fraternity member alumni. The interview traces Greer's background in Snyder, Texas; public school education in Decatur, TX; two-years of study at Decatur Baptist College, where he starred for and captained the basketball team; continued academic pursuits at North Texas State College in public school administration (BS, 1951; MS, 1954) and his membership in the Geezle Fraternity; association with the Geezles… more

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Date: October 31, 2019

Creator: Pettit, John D. & Greer, Alfred Edgar, 1929-