The Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife conservation area along the coast of Texas (USA) in southeastern Matagorda County, south of the towns of Bay City and Wadsworth. It borders a bay behind a barrier island at the Gulf of Mexico. Established in 1983 and encompassing 5,000 acres (20 km2) of salt marsh.[1]
Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge is for the birds. The refuge is only open to the public for waterfowl hunting season and for special activities.[1]
Three national wildlife refuges on the Texas coast - Brazoria, San Bernard and Big Boggy - form a vital complex of coastal wetlands harboring more than 300 bird species.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b FWS (September 2008). "BigBoggy Refuge". FWS.gov. Archived from the original on 23 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
- ^ FWS (September 2008). "San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge". FWS.gov. Archived from the original on March 9, 2005. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
References
- FWS (September 2008). "BigBoggy Refuge". FWS.gov. Archived from the original on 23 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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