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Friends of Galveston Island State Park eradicated Chinese tallow in the park by treatment of the trees with a hormone inhibitor herbicide.
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Coastal Prairie Restoration
Double Bayou Park Canoe & Kayak Launch
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Chambers County constructed a non-motorized watercraft launching and docking facility, an all-weather surface road to the launch area, and a parking area and lighting.
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Dune Restoration Phase II South Padre Island
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The City of South Padre Island restored dunes on public beaches by installing sand fencing along a one-mile corridor and planting native dune vegetation.
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Enhancing Critical Rookery Islands for the Protection and Preservation of Colonial Waterbirds
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Audubon Texas (ATX) conducted rookery island enhancement and protection activities, trained community members to survey rookery islands, monitored colonial waterbird populations during breeding season, and uploaded data to the online database.
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Development/Implementation of Water Quality Management Plans - Kleberg/Kenedy
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Kleberg-Kenedy Soil & Water Conservation District provided technical and financial assistance to let producers to demonstrate various best management practices that address erosion and sediment control, nutrient management and irrigation water management.
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Development/Implementation of Water Quality Management Plans - Arroyo Colorado
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Southmost Soil & Water Conservation District provided technical and financial assistance to enable producers to demonstrate various best management practices that address erosion and sediment control, nutrient management and irrigation water management.
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Charlie's Pasture Land Acquisition
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The City of Port Aransas continued to purchase lands in Charlie's Pasture, approximately 2,000 acres of various sensitive land located on the northwest end of Mustang Island, to protect them from the 17' per year erosion rates along the Ship Channel.
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Cove Harbor South Waterfront Revitalization Phase 2
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Aransas County Navigation District removed the remaining 204 linear feet of failing bulkhead in Cove Harbor (south of the City of Rockport), installed sheet pile, backfilled voids, and graded the site.
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City of Galveston Public Access Enhancement
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The City of Galveston created and published, for public distribution (printed and web-based), maps of revised access points for the City of Galveston beaches in Galveston County, Texas.
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Development/Implementation of Water Quality Management Plans - Jefferson
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Coastal Soil and Water Conservation District provided agricultural producers an opportunity to comply with state water quality laws through a voluntary, incentive-based approach.