GOOSE ISLAND RESTORATION - THE PROBLEM: Is Goose 
Island's shoreline going-going-gone...find out on Passport 
to Texas.

Passport to Texas from TPW and the SFWR Program

Goose Island is shrinking. Between 1961 and 1995, 
approximately 17 acres of this island near Rockport 
ended up underwater. 

Goose Island is a small island in Aransas Bay, therefore it gets all 
the prevailing winds from the southeast which creates pretty large 
waves. And those waves have eroded the southern shoreline of 
Goose Island State Park over the years. :14
 
Kay Jenkins, Natural Resources Coordinator for State 
Parks.

The erosion has lead to a reduction in the amount of estuarine 
marsh, or salt marsh that once was located on the island. They 
basically provide a lot of food, as well as protection, especially for 
juvenile fisheries species. :14

Texas Parks and Wildlife and its partners developed a 
plan to stabilize the shoreline and restore the marsh. 

With continuing erosion, relative sea level rise, development along 
the coast, these marshes are becoming more and more valuable 
because we're losing them. They're slowly being converted to 
open water, which is exactly what happened at Goose Island. We 
have instigated this project to stabilize that shoreline and restore 
some of that salt marsh that has been eroded away. :22

More on that tomorrow....

That's our show ... with research and writing help from 
Loren Seeger...we receive support from the SFWR 
program... providing funding for wetland conservation 
through the Private Lands Enhancement Program.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti