Habitat

The Trinity River floodplain contains a diversity of wetland habitats including bottomland hardwood forested swamps, open water, and wet pastures. Upland areas outside the floodplain contain cultivated pastures, natural pine forests, and mixed-pine hardwood forests.

The proposed acquistion areas provide important breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat for a variety of migratory wildlife including waterfowl and numerous neotropical birds. A total of 275 species of birds occur in the bottomland forests and associated wetlands in eastern Texas. Nearly 100 species of birds are known or believed to breed there.