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Directions : From Houston, go north about 19 mi. Go west 1. Go north 1 mi. Wetlands : Riverine forested- bottomland hardwoods Coastal flatwoods- mixed pine-hardwood. Open year-round, every day. Day use from 8 am to 10 pm. Entrance fee; camping fees vary. Go east 2 mi. Wetlands : Riverine forested- swamp and bottomland hardwoods Coastal flatwoods- mixed pine-hardwood. Prairie pothole and marsh- marsh fringing reservoir.
Sheldon Lake Environmental Education Center offers fishing clinics, nature walks, and wetland studies to organized groups on a prearranged basis. Park has two boat ramps. Entrance fee, contact Park for details. Directions : From Houston, take I east to Beltway 8. Go north about 8 mi. Wetlands : Estuarine- tidal saltmarsh natural and restored Prairie pothole and marsh- demonstration marsh. Description : Eddie V. Gray Center, on the bank of Goose Creek, has indoor classrooms, computer lab, and interpretive wetland displays, as well as indoor and outdoor fishing ponds.
The Nature Center was formerly the Brownwood subdivision that was abandoned due to land subsidence and flooding. Wetland restoration projects at both sites. Port-A-Cans available at Nature Center. LeFevre to dead end, left on Market St. The acre marsh revegetation project used dredge spoil to raise the marsh elevation so marsh vegetation could survive. The project is the largest block of tidal marsh remaining on the lower San Jacinto River.
No entrance fee. Wetlands : Prairie pothole and marsh- constructed demonstration marsh 0. Description : An urban park in downtown Houston. Description : Just northeast of downtown Houston. Community residents have cleaned and restored a section of swamp along White Oak Bayou. Directions : From Memorial Dr. Description : Site has a three-acre prairie pothole with an elevated boardwalk. The pothole is not buffered by a surrounding undeveloped landscape, so it may not survive long.
No entrance fee, facilities on site. Wetlands : Estuarine- tidal mudflats and restored salt marshes Coastal flatwoods- hardwoods Prairie pothole and marsh- wet prairie. Description : One of the last unchannelized bayous in the Houston area, the preserve protects remnant wetlands and tall grass prairie.
Tidal marsh and seagrass restoration programs. Offers a variety of classes and outdoor environmental education school field trips. Class and entrance fees vary. Open 9 -5 on Wed. It also has wetlands along Armand Bayou. Go east 6 mi. Description : Established as mitigation for the construction of Hwy. A prairie site with natural prairie wetlands. Self-guided prairie trail and boardwalk through wetlands.
Good birdwatching for grassland and wetland birds. Restroom facilities available. Take Calder Rd. Go east on 96 about 5. Description : Marsh and shrub wetlands have formed on the downthrown low side of a fault caused by land subsidence due to oil and gas extraction from the Clear Lake Oil Field.
A nature trail skirts part of the wetlands. Directions : From Houston, go south on I to Beltway 8. Go west about 3 mi. Turn left south on Hall Rd. Description : Both reservoirs are for flood control and normally hold water only in the lowest areas. Local school groups have restored a small fresh marsh in the Barker floodpool. For locations and directions contact the project office. Project office is open , Mon. Various trails cross different habitats.
Areas always open; no fees. Directions : From Houston, go west on I Take TX 6 south about 1 mi. Another mile south is a parking lot across from Briar Forest Rd.
A gravel road trail goes into the floodpool and a restored wetland. Wetlands: Prairie pothole and marsh- potholes Lissie Formation , rice fields Riparian forested- bottomland hardwood corridor. Description : Located in Harris and Waller Counties. Part of a larger system of protected prairie preserves.
Tract has an assemblage of agricultural wetlands and wetlands in natural depressions, as well as a riparian hardwood corridor on Cypress Creek. An ADA-accessible viewing platform on Sharp Road overlooking a wetland enhancement project is open during daylight hours. The preserve is open to the public on a limited basis through periodically scheduled tours. Directions : From Houston, take I west to Katy. Exit onto US 90 and continue west to Ave. Deer also feed on foliage, twigs, and stump sprouts because they are a tree species that actively resprouts after cutting or wind damage occurs.
Take the Cypress Loop of the Kirby Nature Trail to see an excellent example of cypress trees and knees in a swamp. Explore This Park. Big Thicket National Preserve Texas.
Info Alerts Maps Calendar Reserve. Alerts In Effect Dismiss. Dismiss View all alerts. Ecological Changes With the placement of a permanent saltwater barrier east of Beaumont, recent NPS acquisitions of land below the barrier, the deepening of the shipping channel clear to the Port of Beaumont, and potential ocean levels rising from climate change impacts, the preserve may one day soon find itself managing several thousand acres of estuarine emergent wetland that has converted over from a riverine lower perennial cypress-tupelo forest.
Bald cypress knees in a swamp. Nearly all floodplain surfaces on the Texas coast are well under 10, years in age, and most are under 1, years old. Clayey soils predominate. Organic soils are rare. Soil Profile of a Bottomland Hardwood Forest Fausse Soil Series, slough in low terrace of Trinity bottom, Liberty County The surface soil to about 5 inches is a slightly acid dark grayish brown clay with many fine iron stains along old root channels. The subsoil to 60 inches is a dark gray clay which grades from neutral in the upper part to slightly alkaline in the lower part.
Iron stains are common throughout the subsoil. The clay is very sticky and very firm throughout the profile. The soil is continuously saturated below a depth of 18 inches in most years, and is flooded or ponded several times a year for brief to very long periods. Hydrograph of the Neches River at Evadale. The river floods almost every year from January through April-May flood stage occurs above about 10, cfs. Source: USGS,.
Hydrology Overbank river flooding is the primary source of water for forested wetlands.
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