Lost Maples State Natural Area II is a photograph by Joan Carroll which was uploaded on November 27th, 2015.
Lost Maples State Natural Area II
It was a warm autumn in Texas so even in late November there wasn't much color change at Lost Maples State Natural Area. Lost Maples State Natural... more
by Joan Carroll
Title
Lost Maples State Natural Area II
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
It was a warm autumn in Texas so even in late November there wasn't much color change at Lost Maples State Natural Area. Lost Maples State Natural Area is a pristine area of hills and canyons on the upper Sabinal River in the Edwards Plateau of Texas. The Park has an isolated stand of uncommon Uvalde Bigtooth Maple (the largest strand east of the Guadalupe Mountains). The ancestors of modern bigtooth maples were thriving in Texas during the last Ice Age some 10,000 years ago, when ice sheets ad-vanced across North America. Subsequently, when the continent's ice sheets shrunk northward during the beginning of the Holocene Epoch at the end of the Pleistocene, and Mexican seas retreated from what is now Texas, the climate began to warm up and dry out. Pockets of the relic tree species were left behind primarily in the cool, moist, shaded canyons of the Sabinal and Frio rivers in Bandera, Real and Uvalde counties. Lost Maples State Natural Area is one such relic. It is designated a Natural Area, rather than a State Park, and therefore the primary focus is maintenance and protection of the property's natural state. The land for Lost Maples State Natural Area was acquired by the state of Texas in 1973 and 1974, and was opened to the public in 1979. In 1980, the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service made the Natural Area a National Natural Landmark.
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November 27th, 2015
