Texas Watersheds: Conservation News from Headwaters to Coast

(formerly Texas Wetland News)

Texas Wetland News recently underwent a renovation into Texas Watersheds: Conservation News from Headwaters to Coast with expanded coverage of watershed and aquatic conservation activities. In order to conserve resources, the newsletter is available only in an online version. Texas Watersheds is posted twice a year, generally in Spring and Fall. If you would like to receive email notification when a new newsletter is posted online, sign up by going to tpwd.texas.gov/email. Then choose Texas Watersheds under "Special Interest E-Newsletters."

• Summer 2016(PDF 3.1 MB)
  The Enigmatic Eel - A Metamorphic Journey
  The Link Between Alligator Gar and Floodplains
  River Restoration Guidelines
  Hidden Treasures of Texas
  Feral Hogs
  How's Your Waterway?
  TWRI Offers Watershed Monitoring, Planning
  LIP and PUB Updates
  Texas Master Naturalist Program
  
  
• Spring 2015(PDF 2.4 MB)
  History of Dams on the Upper San Marcos River
  Early Results of Blanco River Guadalupe Bass Reintroduction Efforts Encouraging
  The Urban Water Cycle Tour
  New Texas Aquatic Science Curriculum Now Available
  Upper San Marcos River Protection Efforts
  Texas Stream Team on the San Marcos River
  The San Marcos Watershed Initiative - A WPP Process
  Contact and Submission Information
  
  
• Spring 2014(PDF 1.7 MB)
  Nocturnal Musicians of the Southern High Plains
  Texas White Bass, Other Fisheries Threatened by Drought
  Drought Survival Kit
  Watershed Workshops: Helping Landowners Conserve our State's Treasured Riparian and Aquatic Habitats
  The Texas Riparian and Stream Ecosystem Education Program: A New Initiative of the Texas Water Resources Institute
  The San Marcos Watershed Initiative - A WPP Process
  Charting a Course to Vibrant Coastal Marshes: The Salt Bayou Watershed Restoration Plan
  Texas Master Naturalist
  
  
• Winter 2013(PDF 3.8 MB)
  Presidio River Rangers: Adventures in Learning
  Environmental Flows in Texas
  After Dredging the San Marcos River to Remove an Invasive Plant Species, Geomorphic Monitoring Continues
  The Big Lift: Major Milestone of Habitat Restoration Is Achieved at Spring Lake
  Technology Upgrade Boosts Education Offerings and Watershed Research at Meadows Center
  Proactive Healthy Watershed Protection Planning for the Upper Llano River
  Texas Master Naturalist
  TPWD Announces Launch of Texas Whooper Watch Program
  New Leased Fishing Access Areas Initiated by TPWD
  
  
• Summer 2012(PDF 5 MB)
  Texas Drought Offers a Rare Fish Conservation Opportunity
  The Oasis Pipeline Fire: Recovery Through Partnerships
  After the Fire: Protecting Your Property from Soil Erosion
  The Rio Grande Tributaries: Habitat Restoration in the Big Bend Region
  Private Lands Partnership/Funding Opportunities
  Why All the Fuss About Mussels?
  Larval Fish Go With the Flow
  The Mighty Mayfly
  Texas Master Naturalist
  Emergency Zebra Mussels Order Signed
  
  
• Fall 2011(PDF 3 MB)
  PULL. KILL. PLANT. It's People Over Arundo in the Nueces Basin
  Guadelupe Bass Restoration Coordinates Watershed-scale Conservation
  Coming Soon... South Llano River Paddling Trail
  Range-wide Survey of Hybridization in the Guadalupe Bass
  Watershed BMP Website Coming Soon
  Water, Wildlife and Partnership
  1,500-Acre Marsh Restoration Project at J.D. Murphree WMA
  
  

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Archived issues of Texas Wetland News

• January 2011(PDF 1.1 MB)
  East Texas Black Bear Task Force Develops Habitat Through its Hardwood Habitat Cooperative
  Wetlands Reserve Program Adds Value to Enrolled Acreage
  Texas Forest Service Water Resources Program Continues to Promote BMPs
  Master Naturalist Program Seeks Applicants
  
  
• January 2010 (PDF 1.6 MB)
  Marsh Planting Is Final Step For Burnet Bay Restoration
  New Watershed Policy and Management Program at TPWD
  Slough Restoration on the Gene Howe WMA
  Tools for Teachers
  Alazan Bay WMA Wetlands Receive Improvements
  Master Naturalist Program Seeks Applicants
  
  
• July 2009 (PDF 655.7 KB)
  TPWD Battles Giant Salvinia on Caddo Lake
  Master Naturalists: Creating Wetland Habitat to Protect Water Quality in Brays Bayou
  Exploring the World in a Drop of Wetland Water
  New Data Available from TNRIS
  
  
• January 2009 (PDF 553.2 KB)
  Master Naturalist Program Seeks Applicants
  Second Phase of Wetlands Completed on Richland Creek WMA
  Back to Nature: Bahia Grande Work Restores Wetlands Lost to Dredging
  Got Cache?
  New Incentives Sweeten Deal for Playas in CRP

• January 2008 (PDF 432.2 KB)
  Old River Cove Marsh Restoration Project
  Texas Master Naturalist Program Seeks Applicants
  Carter Smith Named TPWD Director

• July 2007 (PDF 1 MB)
  Texas Paddling Trails
  The Shifting Conservation Paradigm: Integrated Bird Joint Ventures
  Master Naturalist - Heart of Texas Chapter
  How the Wetland Restoration Team Was Born
  Master Naturalist Training Classes

• January 2007 (PDF 595.5 KB)
  New Film Explores Playas
  Texas Master Naturalists
  New Survey Reveals High Landowner Demand for Playa Conservation
  Prairie Wetland Restoration at Sheldon Lake State Park

• January 2006 (PDF 523.5 KB)
  Saltmarsh and Seagrass Restoration and Protection at Delehide Cove
  Historic Wetlands of Houston
  Goose Island Shoreline Stabilization and Marsh Restoration Project

• July 2005 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  Hydrologic Connection Study at the Armand Bayou Nature Center
  TPWD Water Documentary Segments on PBS
  Private Lands Wetland Conservation Through the East Texas Wetlands Project

• January 2005 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  West Galveston Bay Conservation Corridor Partnership
  New Farm Bill Program Benefits Playa Lakes
  Master Naturalist Program Seeks Applicants

• August 2004 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  Lake Waco Wetlands
  Volunteers Work to Rebuild Potholes
  Habitat Restoration in the Arroyo Colorado to Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution

• January 2004 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  Texas Gets $1 Million in Coastal Wetlands Grants
  Kansas Senator Pat Roberts Introduces Legislation to Protect Playa Lakes, Recharge Ogallala
  Poster and Fact Sheet Sets

• July 2003 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  To Save the Ogallala Aquifer, Save Playa Lakes
  Bessie Heights Marsh Restoration Update
  Poster and Fact Sheet Sets

• January 2003 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  Wetland Conservation within the West Gulf Coast Plain Initiative
  Bessie Heights Marsh Restoration
  Like Father, Like Son

• July 2002 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  Community-based Habitat Restoration Funding Opportunity
  Shamrock Island Receives Funding for Monitoring Work and Maintenance
  Wetland Restoration at the Bessie Heights Marsh
  Goose Island Shoreline Stabilization and Protection of Adjacent Habitats

• January 2002 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  Efforts to Control Non-native Giant Salvinia in Texas
  Texas Parks & Wildlife Receives Federal Funds for Habitat Protection
  The Southern Great Plains Riparian Initiative
  East Texas Wetlands Project

• July 2001 (PDF 537.3 KB)
  West Galveston Bay on the Mend
  Phillips Petroleum Contributes to the Playa Lakes Joint Venture
  Mad Island WMA Shoreline Stabilization Project