Texas Coastal Wetlands: Their Status, Legislation, and Regulation

Date

1991

Authors

Calnan, Thomas R.

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Publisher

Texas General Land Office

Abstract

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) estimates that Texas lost approximately 8,400,000 acres of wetland (inland and coastal) between colonial times and the 1980's, next to Florida, the second highest total of any state. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Departmetn ( TPWD) estimates that approximately 35% of the state's coastal marshes (salt, brackish, and fresh) were lost between the mid-1950's and 1979.

Description

26 pages; available for download at the link below.

Keywords

legislation, regulation, status, wetlands

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