At 10 pm (CDT) on Friday, July 31, 1970, a tropical squall struck the western tip of Cuba causing property damage and the loss of 5 lives. Twelve hours later at 10 am (CDT), Saturday, August 1, the tropical depression had moved 150 miles northwest and had intensified into Tropical Storm Celia. At 5 pm (CDT) the same day, Celia was located about 225 miles northwest of Cuba with 75-mile-per-hour cyclonic winds classifying her as a full-fledged hurricane.
Five main depositional systems of the Jackson Group in Texas are delineated through regional outcrop and subsurface investigation. Dominant element in the central and eastern Texas Gulf Basin is the Fayette fluvial-delta system (bounded by Guadalupe River on the south and Neches River on the east) consisting of dip-oriented, lobate wedges of sands, muds, and lignites. Vertical sequence in updip subsurface and outcrop grades upward from marine muds through delta facies into fluvial sands and muds, reflecting net regression and progradation of the system.
Texas is no longer a frontier. The expansion of cities, industries, superhighways, and reservoirs, and changing land uses are fast absorbing the open spaces that once were so abundant in Texas. Unlike many states that contain vast areas of National forests and parks, there is little federally owned land in Texas, so the State must rely on its own State parks system for outdoor recreational activities. Until recently, however, the State parks program was operated with limited finances, and as a result, Texas is far behind the established national acreage average in its State parks.
Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Hansford, Ochiltree, and Lipscomb Counties and parts of Moore, Hutchinson, Roberts, Hemphill, and Sherman Counties.
The conservation movement has grown enormously in strength and breadth during the last decade as a result of widespread concern about natural resources and the quality of the environment. The Federal leadership broadened the definition of conservation to applied ecology and thereby put a meaning into the word that went far beyond its original sense. Conservation now includes all of the physical, social, and legal problems attendant on use of the land.