The history of Galveston Bay resource utilization

Date

1993

Authors

Henson, Margaret Swett

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Publisher

Galveston Bay National Estuary Program

Abstract

From a historian's viewpoint, this is a documentation of human activity over a period of 14,000 years. Information was used from newspapers, interviews, books and memories. Starting with the formation of the ecosystem in the Galveston Bay dating up to the 1880s this report covers all the way in to the 1990s where it discusses the commercial and sport fishing and wildlife areas of the Bay.

Description

71 pages; available for download at the link below.

Keywords

Coastal zone management, history, land use, environmental aspects, estuarine area conservation

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