Texas Parks & Wildlife Department will restore marsh land habitats that are integral parts of the Texas gulf coast and the Aransas Bay estuarine ecosystems.
The objective of this project is to mitigate the loss of valuable intertidal estuarine marsh habitat due to erosion by completing the 24-acre created marsh site through the beneficial use of dredged material (BUDM).
The Gordy Marsh shoreline is eroding at a rapid rate. The habitat degradation in this area would continue unless protective measures are taken.
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is developing a web site that provides access to a centralized coastal sediment database (TxSed). The database will include available Texas coastal sediment data the GLO has access to.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service (AgriLife) will increase the Green Infrastructure For Texas (GIFT) outreach effort through stakeholder education.
Calhoun County purchased Green Lake, a 6,434.49 acre tract of land lying entirely in Calhoun County. Approximately 5,420 acres of the tract is an open water lake, about 864 acres is ephemerally inundated lowlands and about 150 acres is wooded upl
For the first time, the GLO partnered directly with Ducks Unlimited on behalf of the West Galveston Bay Property Owners group to address erosion along a 9,200-linear-foot stretch of the northern GIWW shoreline between the mouths of Greens and Carancahu
The Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust is purchasing approximately 170 acres of land within the Guadalupe River Delta and San Antonio Bay system to help create a corridor of conserved lands.
City of South Padre Island will increase the number of public parking spaces immediately adjacent to the beach by maximizing the use of the entire 75' Right-of-Way, which has not been completely utilized in the past.
The City of South Padre Island is moving forward with a solution to maximize the use of the entire 75’ Right-of-Way (ROW) of Gulf Boulevard which has not been completely utilized in the past.
Friends of the Rio Grande Valley Reef will accumulate 9,250 tons of donated, concrete materials on a site at the Port of Brownsville.
Nueces County will develop a comprehensive master plan to ensure that all wetland and woodland habitat areas are preserved in perpetuity within the Packery Channel Nature Preserve Park.
The City of Corpus Christi will develop a restoration and monitoring plan to begin implementation of on-the-ground restoration activities within the preserve. Project activities will also include the development and implementation of a public out
The purpose of this project is to construct a three-dimensional sub-tidal reef structure over 25-30 acres within the historic footprint of Half Moon Reef in Matagorda Bay.
The Harris County Seafood Consumption Advisory Public Education Campaign will focus on public education and outreach about the risks of human consumption of seafood contaminated with toxic substances within Harris County, particularly in low income are
Project objective is to increase habitat diversity on the property with aquatic habitat enhancements, grassy swales, low-impact development techniques that harvest and beneficially use runoff, and other features intended to attract birds and other wild
The University of Texas at El Paso will commission two High Frequency Radar (HFR) networks in Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake.
The Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will obtain airborne light detection and ranging (Lidar) survey of islands within the Upper Laguna Madre and provide analyses of rookery island vulnerability.
Nueces County will connect areas within Hilltop Nature Park by constructing a 1,500 linear foot nature trail, a 100 cubic yard (6 ft deep) wetland pond adjacent to an existing creek with an ADA crossover 20 x 5 foot timber boardwalk that connect to the
Phase II is the construction of an 1,800 linear foot nature trail to connect the existing trail to an underutilized area of the park. The nature trail will connect to the existing trail at two points and will provide amenities for a sitting area