This article is about the reduction and alteration of living resources with an emphasis on habitat, salinity, and water quality and circulation.

This investigation addresses the potential of marsh creation in Galveston Bay to provide beneficial use in conjunction with widening and deepening of the Houston-Galveston Navigation Channel. Interagency planners are ...

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In the winter of 2001, the Houston-Galveston Area Council received two grant opportunities to work with local governments to protect wetlands. The first grant was received from the Texas General Land Office to aid the City ...

Habitat utilization by fish and decapod crustaceans was compared among 3 transplanted and 3 natural Spartina alterniflora marshes on the Texas (USA) coast during spring 1986. Created marshes had been transplanted on dredged ...

The deltaic marshes constitute an important habitat in the overall bay ecosystem, both in sustaining an edemic community as well as providing spawning and/or nursery areas for many species. In order to evaluate the behavior ...

Texas Watch is a statewide environmental partnership program designed to reduce the pollution generated in Texas and to provide citizens, industry, and public agencies with the information they need to improve and preserve ...

The urgent need to increase knowledge about restoration and the amount of restoration activity taking place have led representatives of Restore America's Estuaries (RAE) and the Estuarine Research Foundation (ERF) to form ...

Studies of above ground biomass management have been done in the past. However, these did not account for the period before and after the time of the management. Now studies are being conducted which include those periods. ...

In 1995, the Pearland city council approved plans for a multi-use facility called the Southwest Environmental Center (SWEC). Uses planned for the site include wastewater treatment, detention, wetlands, recreation, education, ...