Books written by Joe C. Truett

  • Grass: In Search of Human Habitat
    Grass: In Search of Human Habitat

    In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, traces the evolutionary, historical, and cultural forces that have reshaped North American rangelands over the past ...

  • The Natural History of an Arctic Oil Field: Development and the Biota
    The Natural History of an Arctic Oil Field: Development and the Biota

    Specialists with years of field experience have contributed to this volume to create the first widely available synopsis of the ecology and wildlife biology of animals and plants living in close association with an actively producing oil ...

  • Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas
    Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas

    The result is an “elegant chronicle of the natural history of a once-rich area [that] will appeal strongly to birders, ecologists, to anyone who enjoys the outdoors” (Publishers Weekly). “This deceptively slender volume is three ...

  • Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas
    Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas

    Winner, Ottis Lock Endowment Award for the best book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 1985 Texas Literary Festival Award for Nonfiction (Southwestern Booksellers Association & Dallas Times Herald),...

  • Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas
    Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas

    ... hogs, he would say, 'Suey! Go find 'em, Ruff' and Ruff . . . would hunt hogs. He would find every hog in the region where he hunted. If he was taken out at night he wouldn't hunt anything but coons, possums, and wildcats. “At that time ...