[PCA] NEWS: Ecologist travels Texas to pore over flora

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/ecologist-travels-texas-to-pore-over-flora-156179.html

Ecologist travels Texas to pore over flora
Geo-database she's helping create is part of larger efforts to manage 
wildlife in Texas.
By Asher Price
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 8:57 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009
Published: 7:46 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009

In the rain, amid sand dunes, on chilly mountain passes or deep in vast 
deserts, Amie Treuer-Kuehn clambers out of her white Chevy pickup to 
examine yet another patch of Texas ground.

Treuer-Kuehn, a plant ecologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife 
Department, is putting together a "geo-database" -- a minutely examined, 
arguably obsessively put-together, survey of the state's landscape. The 
data is ultimately turned into maps that capture the flora and shape of 
the landscape.

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