ONLINE Houston Monthly Meeting: Matagorda Bay, the Heart of the Texas Coast

This meeting will be conducted using Zoom. Everyone is welcome.
7:00 - 7:30 pm: Time for log in, announcements, meet & greet.
Featured program presentation starts at 7:30 pm
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MONTHLY MEETING PROGRAM:
Matagorda Bay, the Heart of the Texas Coast

Speaker: Bill Balboa, Executive Director of Matagorda Bay Foundation

The Matagorda and San Antonio Bay estuaries are situated between Galveston and Corpus Christi and cover almost 700 square miles of the central Texas coast. The unique environment created at the confluence of central Texas Rivers and the Gulf of Mexico is home to incredibly diverse populations of wildlife and fisheries species, migratory waterfowl, and overwintering populations of endangered Whooping cranes.

The Matagorda Bay Foundation is dedicated to the wise stewardship of central Texas’ estuaries and the coastal watersheds that sustain the natural resources of the Matagorda, Lavaca, Espiritu Santo and San Antonio Bays.

This presentation will be focused on three main topics: 1) a brief overview of the Matagorda Bay Foundation and our mission, 2) a brief history of changes that produced tremendous impacts to the structure and function of Matagorda Bay, and 3) The current status of the bay and the need for advocacy, and an overview of the priority projects of the Matagorda Bay Foundation.

The Matagorda Bay Foundation website:
https://matbay.org/

Related video:
Matagorda Bay and fresh water inflows,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIxyPNmYDcQ