Welcome Saline Conference/TORCH Since 1912 Since 2012

Thanks to: Morton Salt…Ed Fasulo Joy Global Corp….Dan Flournoy Mr. Ben E. Jarvis…Steen Saline Jason Singhurst TPWD co-chair Kim Norton BRIT Clifford Shackelford TPWD moderator Craig Rudolph USFS Wayne Elisens TORCH Amanda Neill TORCH

TORCH

Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria

NSF funded effort at broad scale cooperation

Saline Prairies and Marshes of Inland East Texas

Sources of information Soil surveys Google earth Geology reports Digital newspapers…today we know more about the past than they did in the past.

Which are gone Significance…salt running like a thread throughout Texas History

Caddo Spanish early grants French Fort LeDout (Woldert site) Anglo Pedro Ellias Bean seed tick springs Civil war Oil/gas, salt sulphur (Woldert wells) Salt, sulphur China?

Need cooperative effort Research questions

Origin and age? Vicariance or dispersal? Plant Source for phytoremediation? Gene source for engineering? Converting polluted sites to endangered species habitat?

Origin and Formation

Jurassic salts Deposited up to 8km deep

Louann Salt

Younger = domesOlder = basins, marshes

Survey map showing Carmona claims in 1838.

Steen’s Saline

Smith County

1864 seven salt makers With exemption

Veatch, 1902. The salines of north Louisiana. Special Report No.2,In A report on the geology of Louisiana