Land of Bears and Honey
ISBN: 9780292748132
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / University of Texas Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited

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), 1985
Annual Publication Award, Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society, 1984

The story of the land, wildlife, and ecology of East Texas.


The authors of Land of Bears and Honey were both native East Texans. Joe C. Truett headed Truett Research, an organization that investigates the effects of people on the land; for the past twenty-five years he has conducted research on the ecological impacts of human actions. Daniel W. Lay worked for more than forty years as a wildlife biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

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