Piney Woods Ecoregion

1. Piney Woods Ecoregion

2. Location The Piney Woods of Texas Is located on the northern side of Texas’ eastern border

3. Weather In the Northern half there is an average of 40-50 in tempurature The southern par has an average of 50-60 degrees in the winter and 80-90 in the summer The Piney woods has an average rain fall of 40-50 in the north, and an average of 60-70 in the south There is an average wind speed of 6.4 mph

4. Plants Other Plants • other hardwood forests • Red maple • American beech • White ash • Red mulberry • Texas trailing phlox • Eastern redbud • Flowering dogwood • Southern magnolia • Eastern red cedar • Long-leaf pine • Bald cypress • Buttonbush • Loblolly pine Southern red oak Sweetgum American beautyberry Flowering dogwood Water oak Pine tree Oak tree

5. Ringtail Animals Attwater's pocket gopher Virginia Opossum Others • Southern short-tailed shrew • Seminole bat • Eastern cottontail • white-tailed deer • Swamp rabbit • Eastern gray squirrel • Eastern flying squirrel • Marsh rice rat • Eastern harvest mouse • Cotton mouse Common Gray Fox Red-cockaded woodpecker Bobcat Prairie vole River otter

6. Land Features One of the soils of the Piney Woods are mostly acidic and have a smaller native fertility, while the other soil found in this ecoregion is found where clay has accumulated and have a high native fertility. Land Formations in the Piney woods region include the Sabine river, 200-500 feet in elevation, rolling hills,hardwood forest, and it is full of many contrasts