Wetlands restoration at Galveston Island State Park: A multi-agency project

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dc.acquisition-srcGBEPen_US
dc.call-noQH 541.5 .E8 G32 T-3 c.1-2 GBAYen_US
dc.call-noREF QH 541.5 .E8 G32 T-3 GBAYen_US
dc.contract-noGBEP T-3en_US
dc.contributor.authorGlass, Phil, and Ted Hollingsworthen_US
dc.contributor.otherProceedings: The State of the Bay Symposium IV. January 28-29, 1999en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:34:23Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:34:23Z
dc.date.issued1999en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.descriptionpgs. 203-204en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractThe Stewart Ranch in west Galveston Island included some 1100 acres of tidal salt marsh, mostly smooth cord grass Spartina alterniflora, in 1930. The adjacent West Bay shallows contained large sea grass beds, probably Halodule wrightii. There were approximately 900 acres of marsh left when the ranch became a state park in 1970. In the early 1990's, biologists and fisherman noticed the marsh was rapidly disappearing. By 1994, aerial photographs confirmed there were only 400 acres remaining. Over the last four years, the marsh has continued to disappear, until today there are less than 100 acres. Tidal marshes all along West Bay's south shore are disappearing at an alarming rate, apparently from erosion precipitated by subsidence. The restoration project at Galveston Island State Park should prove a valuable model and inspiration for the restoration of more marshes in West Bay and elsewhere. Already a project at Jumbile Cove has been funded and will be under construction in the near future.en_US
dc.description.urien_US
dc.geo-codeGalveston Islanden_US
dc.geo-codeWest Bayen_US
dc.geo-codeLouisianaen_US
dc.geo-codeCorpus Christien_US
dc.geo-codeJumbile Coveen_US
dc.geo-codeGalveston Bayen_US
dc.history10/25/04 easen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/25845
dc.latitudeen_US
dc.locationGBIC Circulating Collection; GBIC Reference Collectionen_US
dc.longitudeen_US
dc.notesThe authors are representing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Natural Resource Program, Texas Parks and Wildlifeen_US
dc.placeAustin, TXen_US
dc.publisherTexas Natural Resource Conservation Commissionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries8783.00en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/gbeppubs/T3/gbnep-T3.htmlen_US
dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesen_US
dc.subjectwetlandsen_US
dc.subjectrestorationen_US
dc.subjectsalt marshesen_US
dc.subjectspartina alternifloraen_US
dc.subjecthalodule wrightiien_US
dc.subjecterosionen_US
dc.subjectsubsidenceen_US
dc.subjectaerial photographyen_US
dc.subjectvegetation coveren_US
dc.subjecthydraulic engineeringen_US
dc.subjectterracesen_US
dc.subjectsmooth cord grassen_US
dc.titleWetlands restoration at Galveston Island State Park: A multi-agency projecten_US
dc.typeChapteren_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issueT-3en_US

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