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East Texas Pineywoods

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Description: The East Texas region is primarily a thick forest of pines. Swamps are common, particularly in the southern most area of the region which is called the “Big Thicket.

Size: 23,500 square miles

Topography: The terrain is rolling with lower, wetter bottomlands that grow hardwood trees such as elm, mesquite and ash.

Soil Type: The soils of the region are generally acidic and mostly pale to dark gray sands or sandy loams.

Climate: 40-52 inches of rainfall per year. Humidity and temperatures are typically high.

Plant life: Pine, oak, and other hardwood forests Red maple American beech White ash Sweetgum Southern red oak Water oak Red mulberry Eastern redbud

Wildlife: Southern short-tailed shrew Seminole bat Ringtail Virginia opossum Rafinesque's big-eared bat Eastern cottontail Common gray fox Striped skunk


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