COASTAL EXPOS: Coastal Expos bring coastal biology, 
recreation and understanding of human impact on the gulf 
to you ... details on Passport to Texas.

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If you can't get to the coast, then look for a Coastal Expo.

08 -- Coastal Expo's an educational outreach event, where we're 
teaching the public about the Texas Coast and why it's important 
and why we need to protect it.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department brings the coast to 
communities (even communities on the coast) with Coastal 
Expo. Kris Shipman coordinates the events.

12 -- We have all sorts of great hands-on activities where they can 
go to a touch tank and touch sea stars and crabs and different 
things like that. We have areas where we talk about water quality; 
we talk about sea grass and wetlands and what functions they 
serve.

Kris Shipman says she takes the coastal expo exhibits 
statewide to help people understand their connection to 
the gulf and the oceans of the world.

22 -- The entire state of Texas forms the watershed for the Gulf of 
Mexico. And so if somebody in Abilene were to drop a piece of 
trash on the ground, that trash would eventually end up in some 
sort of watershed. Eventually that water is going to drain to the 
Gulf of Mexico. So, all of that trash, if it doesn't get picked up, 
that's where it ends up -- is out in the Gulf of Mexico and out into 
the rest of the ocean. 

The Next Coastal Expo is June 9th at the KEE-muh 
Boardwalk in Galveston Bay. Find information on the 
Texas Parks and Wildlife website.

The WSFR program supports our series and funds 
conservation projects in Texas.

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




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