BIG SHELL, 2: Volunteer to help clean up a unique Texas 
beach ... we'll have details up next on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Even in years when hurricanes don't make a mess of the 
Texas coast, trash from far-flung places inundates Big 
Shell Beach due to the confluence of two strong currents 
pushing garbage onto the shore.

You can walk along and pick up six or seven items, and you'll 
have four or five languages among the items. :07

Captain Billy Sandifer organizes the yearly Big Shell Beach 
cleanup, and the next one is Saturday March 14. Big Shell, 
considered one of Texas' most beautiful stretches of 
barrier island, is part of the Padres Island National 
Seashore. 

This year the personnel on the national seashore are all going 
to be down there with lots of trucks and lots of willing hands. 
This is kind of an upgrade -- more of a cooperative effort than 
we've ever had before. But the problem is larger than it's ever 
been before. :18

More hands are needed because debris from Galveston 
and other towns devastated by Hurricane Ike has 
overwhelmed the shoreline. 

We need every human being in Texas. Look, if they'll go to 
Terlingua to go to a Chili cook-off, undoubtedly they can come 
down here in paradise and help pick up trash. :12

Volunteers will meet March 14 at the Malaquite Visitor 
Center no later than 7:30 AM. If you have a four-wheeler, 
bring it -- you'll need it. Find complete details at 
passporttotexas.org.

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






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