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The Conservation History Association of Texas is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization that is creating an archive and set of documentaries about the environmental history of the state of Texas, under the title, Texas Legacy Project.

The group's materials are drawn from oral histories conducted with leading veteran conservationists in Texas, numbering over 220 to date, and including representatives from 65 communities, 11 ecoregions, and a variety of backgrounds, such as science, politics, law, agriculture, religion, and advocacy.

Based on these interviews, the group has created over 440 hours of raw video, 230 edited videos, 20 audio clips, 14,000 pages of transcripts, 60 curriculum examples, and a variety of supporting databases, including a log of all interviews, and a timeline of significant events in environmental history. These materials are available on the organization's website, www.texaslegacy.org, subject to Creative Commons conditions.

The group has three main goals: to celebrate the contributions of individuals, many of who are volunteers, to the protection of natural resources and public health in the state, second, to assemble a first-hand record of the conservation movement in Texas, third, to encourage a younger generation to carry on these efforts into the future. The organization is also interested in exploring the technical issues of producing, distributing, archiving, and indexing digital audio and video.

The Association has been operating since 1998 and is based out of Austin. Its chief partners are the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, which holds its digital records, the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, which stores its tangible archive, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which has provided extensive video footage and audio outreach.