Project Description
The Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP) will use Coastal Management Program Cycle 26 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) funds to work on three components related to rookery island enhancement: (1) management, (2) monitoring, and (3) restoration. CBBEP will direct their management actions toward optimizing available nesting habitat and reducing factors associated with nest failure or abandonment. CBBEP will monitor islands during nesting season to ensure nesting activities are proceeding as expected and to assess and resolve problems that may be impeding nesting. To prepare rookery islands for restoration, CBBEP will conduct an alternatives analysis, preliminary engineering, 70% construction design, and permitting in three bay systems.
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Classification
- Non-construction