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282 The Book of Texas Bays Coastal Birding Trail, 142–44; High Island, 27–29; King Ranch, 226–32; Laguna Atascosa, 253–54; Smith Point rookery, 33–35; South Padre Island, 257–59 Bisbee, Ron, 106 Black Duck Bay, 54 Blackjack Peninsula, 189–90, 194 Blankinship, David, 255, 256 Blevins, Janie and Wesley, 150, 154 blue crabs, 191–94 blue herons, 16 boating, damage from recreational, 249– 50, 251 Boca Chica, 262 bod (biochemical oxygen demand), 53 Bolin, George, 55, 133, 237 Bolivar Flats, 29 bottomlands, 18–19, 40, 96–107 Boy Scout Woods, 29 brackish marshes. See marshes Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, 84, 90–91 Brazos River, 97 brds (bycatch reduction devices), 154 breeding areas, bird, 33–35, 190 bridge proposal for South Padre Island, 266 Brown, Brownie, 188 Brown, Buster, 103 Brown, Lee, 68 Brown, Peter, 66–67 brown pelicans, 34, 69, 70, 239 brown shrimp, 148, 150, 152–53 Brownsville Navigation District, 256 Pages with maps in boldface Pages with photographs in italic activism, environmental, role of, 89–90, 269–74. See also legal battles airboats, 201, 202 air pollution, 51, 77, 157 Alcoa: groundwater sales to San Antonio, 178; Lavaca Bay contamination, 147, 156, 159, 162, 163–65 Alexander, Heather, 211 alliances, environmental activist, 147, 171, 182, 183, 273–74 American General Realty of Houston, 237–42 Amistad Reservoir, 267 Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, 21, 24–25, 27, 29 Angelina River, 7 Anglo vs. Vietnamese shrimpers, 148 Antrobus, Sally, 67 aquifers, consequences of draining, 72– 74, 176 Aransas Bay, 8, 187–94, 205 Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, 189– 90 Aransas River, 205 Armour, Lawrence, 103–104, 133 Armstrong, Neil, 115 Armstrong, Tobin, 215–16, 220 Arroyo Colorado, 251–52 audit agreement for Formosa Plastics case, 158–63 Audubon Society, Houston, 27, 39 Austin’s Woods, 104–105, 106–107 Baffin Bay, 213, 218 Bahia Grande, 254–55, 256, 257 bald eagles, 44 Barbour’s Cut, 65 barge industry and giww, 234–35 barrier islands: as breeding areas for birds, 33–35; development issues, 222– 23; Galveston Island, 71–83, 84; Harbor Island, 195–204; High Island, 27–29; Mad Island, 132–44; Mustang Island, 222; Padre Island National Seashore, 213, 215–18, 220–23, 231, 246; South Padre Island, 225, 237–42, 257–66; St. Joseph Island, 84 bay bottoms, public ownership of, 86, 130 Bayport, 18, 54 Baytown Nature Center, 72 Beaumont-Port Arthur refineries, 14–16 Benstock, Marcy, 52 benthic organisms, 14 Bentsen, Lloyd, 73 Bergan, Jim, 138 Berry, Ray, 38–39, 44 biochemical oxygen demand (bod), 53 birds: bald eagles, 44; caracaras, 172, 174, 224, 232; Columbia Bottomlands, 98, 100, 101; Harris’s hawk, 232, 235, 253; on King Ranch, 226–27, 229, 230; peregrine falcons, 239; piping plovers, 217–18, 220, 239; red-winged blackbird, 7; on Smith Point Island, 35. See also migrations; waterfowl birdwatching: Christmas Bay experience, 94; Christmas Bird Count, 137–42; Index Index The red-winged blackbird favors freshwater marshes. The Sabine Lake system is ringed by freshwater and brackish marshes as well as the more traditional salt marshes, making it unique on the Texas coast. Sabine Lake’s marshes extend into Louisiana, a fact Texans seldom consider in water policy issues. Today, the intrusion of salt water is one of the major threats to these fresh and brackish systems. 283 Brownsville Ship Channel, 254, 255, 257, 260 Brownwood area of Houston, 72 Bue, Judge (federal judge), 40–41, 44, 207 Buffalo Bayou, 48 Bunch, Bill, 263 Bureau of Reclamation, U.S., 208, 211 Burnett Bay, 54 business interests, short-sightedness of, 16, 30, 116. See also development, economic bycatch reduction devices (brds), 154 Calcasieu Lake, 7 Caldwell, Neil, 112 canals, negative environmental effects, 9, 14–15, 39. See also Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (giww) Caney Creek, 97, 114–17 caracaras, 172, 174, 224, 232 care (Coalition About the Restoration of the Estuaries), 209 Carson, Rachel, 193–94, 270 Carter, Jack, 112 Carter, Mary, 71, 75 catch per unit effort (cpue) in shrimping, 152–53 cca (Coastal Conservation Association), 145, 168–71, 182 Cedar Bayou, 84 Chapman, Frank, 137 Chapman, John, 93–94, 167, 172 chenier protection, 21 Cherry, Charlotte, 67 Chesapeake Bay oyster industry, 31 Chimenti, Katie, 67 Choke Canyon reservoir, 207–12 Christianity and ecotheology, 57–58, 64, 272 Christmas Bay, 84–95 Christmas Bird Count, 137–42 circulation, water, as savior of Galveston Bay, 54–55. See also freshwater inflows to estuaries and bays Citizens for Estuarine Planning, 198 Clark, H. C., 71...