Reflections on the Neches

Geraldine Ellis Watson was a plant ecologist and park ranger for the National Park Service for fifteen years and the author of Big Thicket Plant Ecology.

"Reflections on the Neches should become an environmental classic." ""Reflections" is not a book to skim. It should be absorbed, ideally from a canoe drifting down current in the Snow River. This book is a captivating blend of art and history and biological facts from a writer whose heart and soul has been bound up in the Big Thicket for a long, adventuresome, and sometimes combative lifetime. . . . You will be riveted by her tales of the fabled Ivory-billed woodpecker."--"East Texas Historical Association Journal" "Like the river, "Reflections on the Neches" has a natural flow; like the river, it is charming. One is easily drawn into the world of the river, and into the lives of its people."--Pete A. Y. Gunter, author of "The Big Thicket" and co-editor of "The Big Thicket Guidebook" "This book makes the Neches River come alive and makes the reader want to find the nearest canoe in order to travel in her footsteps to rediscover the beauty that exists around each river bend. . . . In addition to the expected exquisitely detailed travelogue, Watson adds her superior observations as a naturalist, sharing geographical, geological, hydrographic and biological information on the Neches, the Big Thicket and Southeast Texas in terms that a layman can understand."--"Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record"