Texas Wildernesses

Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 56
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=225
Wilderness | Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness
State | TX
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 4/3/2015
WID | 225
Abbreviated Name | Guadalupe_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GuadalupeMountains.jpg
Acreage | 46850
Description | Approximately 260 million years ago, a 350-mile reef formed along the edge of the great sea that covered this area. With time, the sea receded and the reef died, only to be buried by sediment. Eons later...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 225NPS
Designated | 1978
ORIG_FID | 39325

Big Slough Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 475
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=45
Wilderness | Big Slough Wilderness
State | TX
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 45
Abbreviated Name | Big_Slough
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Acreage | 3521
Description | Logging operations that began in the late 1800s left only scrub hardwoods and a few isolated "islands" of young pines on the land now known as Big Slough, the smallest Wilderness in Texas. You'll still...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 45FS
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 44311

Indian Mounds Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 592
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=259
Wilderness | Indian Mounds Wilderness
State | TX
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 259
Abbreviated Name | Indian_Mounds
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/IndianMounds.jpg
Acreage | 12214
Description | Prior to 1930, before loggers had worked their way through the area, longleaf pine, beech, oak, and magnolia trees supported a vigorous turpentine industry. Today, Indian Mounds Wilderness safeguards a...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 259FS
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 44430

Little Lake Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Little Lake Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Little_Lake_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | Years after loggers' saws tore through these hills, hardwoods again dominate Little Lake Creek Wilderness. Three major drainages--Pole Creek, Sand Branch, and Little Lake Creek--divide the area, which...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 324FS

Turkey Hill Wilderness
Wilderness | Turkey Hill Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Turkey_Hill
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | You might expect to find a few gobblers running about these hills, but you will have to settle for deer (hunters don't seem to mind), snakes, stinging insects, ticks, and chiggers. Turkey Hill Wilderness...

Upland Island Wilderness
Wilderness | Upland Island Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Upland_Island
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/UplandIsland.jpg
Description | By 1930, loggers had chopped down almost all the pine with any commercial value, leaving behind a few small "islands" of immature trees and remnants of sawmill sites. A dense cover of second-growth pines...