Course Project On The Coast Of Texas

Geologically speaking, Louisiana is a very young state. Environmentally speaking, Louisiana is a very fragile state. Louisiana has always been dependent upon the nutrient rich deposits from the Mississippi River to build up the land. Centuries ago the Mississippi River periodically changed its course, building up Louisiana one delta at a time. The erosional forces of the Gulf of Mexico and annual hurricanes depleted Louisiana’s coastline, but the mighty Mississippi River would replenish the land losses. Such is the relationship that forces of nature have with one another. Place mankind in the mix, and the relationship becomes stressed and dysfunctional. The present day Louisiana coastline is a mere shadow of its former self. Let’s look

In south Texas there are several types of ecosystems one of those ecosystems are the dunes. South Texas dunes are found along the Texas coastline and the general abiotic conditions are sandy soil, high salt content, some fresh water, flooding in the occasion of severe storms and moisture from rain and waves. Sea Oats and Bitter Pancum are two types of plants that dominate the South Texas dunes. Bitter Pancum adaptation for living in this type of ecosystem is that they are tolerant to high salinity. Sea Oats are less tolerant to high salt but their adaptation is to grow rapidly. Some common animal species that live in the dunes are crabs, which are tolerant to high salt water, gulls, and terns feed on crabs and other species around the

The Coastal Plains of Texas is a large area that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to beyond the Rio Grande. This region can be divided into 5 distinct areas.

* The group is mostly focused on maintaining the vegetation of the various lagoons in the Terrigal area. As a result, most of their actions relate to the maintenance of the lagoons. The kind of things they do include:

that number grew to 59.5 million, which is an increase in of 158% (Ryan, 2013, p. 5). As the

The estimated total population in the “City of Murphy, Texas as of July1, 2016 was 20,482” (Bureau, U.C., 2017), compared to the “total population of Texas, which was 27,862,596 in the year 2016” (Bureau, U.C., 2017.) and the “United States population as of today, October 3, 2017 of 326,102, 454” (Bureau, U.C., 2017). There was data for

There were several extremely fascinating aspects regarding the history of Texas found in Passionate Nation's pages 195-219 and Major Problems in Texas History's pages 146-150 and 162-167. One of the most salient of these was the fact that Texas was its own independent nation. This fact was fairly startling for a number of different reasons. One of these is the fact that the United States allowed another nation to be created within its borders. This is something rarely done in history, and probably never done again in the history of the United States.

Texas occupies about 7 percent of the total water and land area of the United States. Second in size among the states, Texas has a land and water area of 268,596 square miles as compared with Alaska's 665,384 square miles,

Houston is a large city with very unique qualities that most cities cannot even begin to understand, but is this just Houstonian pride talking? No, actually one of the unique qualities that Houston has is how we handle our land use planning. Houston is well known for not having any zoning ordinances, which has become a well-known topic for a while now. People argue weather our lack of zoning is chaotic, unorthodox, or independent and distinct. Another unique quality that we have is where our political culture stands. Dr. Elazar’s “Individualistic - Traditionalistic” study of political culture talks about three categories moralistic,

The first mini project I began to work on was taking pictures of Galveston and agricultural areas of Texas and learning about the history of both. While researching about Galveston I learned that the Karankawa Indians used Galveston for hunting and fishing. Jose de Evia charted the Texas coast in 1785 and named Galveston Bay in honor of Bernando di Galvez, the viceroy of Mexico. In 1816 Louis Aury established a naval base at the harbor to support the revolution in Mexico. Up until the Civil War the port in Galveston was used for the Texas navy. In 1860 a bridge was built to the island resulting in strengthening Houston and Galveston together. Galveston had the first structure, the Galveston Pavilion, to have

The loss of Louisiana coastal land is one of the most, major factors in our environment today. Louisiana has already lost 1,880 square miles of land in the past eight decades. This problem is effecting the state funding to help solve the problem before the state lose more coastal land. In order to stop this situation, the state needs to have a stronger structural protection for the coastline (Wilson, 2013).

#1- Did any of the following individuals in Texas Gulf Sulphur violate civil or criminal law by breaching a

What scientist say is that in the near future there will not be any Galveston from the sea levels. They predict that Galveston will have flooded, they say that the sea level will rise because of the pollution that is currently being added into the water including the oil that is being dumped into the ocean also. Researchers are trying their best to clean out the ocean, but most likely they won’t get anywhere with trying to clean the ocean. There is so much oil and pollution into the ocean that they won’t be able to do anything about it.

on the evening of september 8th, 1900 the most grand city in texas was ruined by a category 4 hurricane. in 1900 galveston island had a prosperous sea port bringing in tourists and many kinds of commercial goods. because of the many beaches and warm weather, galveston was growing in hopes of being like New York City. although galveston never fully recuperated from "the storm" of 1900, they worked to prevent the damage of many hurricanes that would come in the future.

The Gulf Stream is one of the largest and fastest ocean currents on earth covering approximately 10,000 km (The Gulf Stream Explained, n.d). The Gulf Stream originates from a warm water current transported to the Gulf of Mexico by the Southeast Trade Winds (The Gulf Stream Explained, n.d). Once in the Gulf of Mexico this mass of water heats up and fueled by the Westerly Winds it starts to move towards Europe passing along the U.S East coast (The Gulf Stream Explained, n.d). While traveling on its path the Gulf Stream regulates the temperature on the east coast of the U.S and in some parts of Europe. It also contributes to the migration of many species from the Caribbean Sea to the north (The Gulf Stream Explained, n.d).