Featured Freshwater Coastal Prairie Wetland Restoration – Case Study: Sheldon Lake State Park (Marissa Sipocz – Texas Watersheds, 2/15/13) Freshwater coastal prairie wetlands once covered large expanses of the Houston-Galveston landscape. Over 50 years, agricultural development and use altered the land surface and subsurface to an extreme degree. Successful restoration of these landscapes can be a difficult process at best….
Featured Travel Channel Names Galveston Island in Top 5 ‘Best Gulf Coast Beaches’ List (Guidry News, 2/7/13) The Galveston Island State Park was recently named one of the top 5 “Best Gulf Coast Beaches” by the Travel Channel – the only Texas beach to make the list. The article describes Galveston as feeling like “a major resort destination” able to…
Featured If Texas Water Plan Is Funded, Where Will The Money Go? (Mose Buchele – StateImpact, 1/24/13) The Texas State Water Plan has been described as a $53 billion dollar wish list, full of local projects that remain largely unprioritized and unfunded. If Texas gets a proposed $2 billion from the state’s rainy day fund, those regional entities could jumpstart…