What changes have occurred in the lobbying environment over the past three or four decades?
there is more professional lobbying.
many interests lobby both the national government and the states.
a fragmentation of interests has taken place.
all the above

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.