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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN><p>Wetland and aquatic habitats are essential components of inland and barrier island environments along the Texas coast. These layers contain coastal wetland habitat from 1956, 1979, 2002, and 2022 interpreted from historical and recent aerial photographs. Wetlands are classified by system (marine, estuarine, riverine, palustrine, lacustrine), subsystem (reflective of hydrologic conditions), and class (descriptive of vegetation and substrate). Maps for 1979 and the 2000’s were additionally classified by subclass (subdivisions of vegetated classes only), water regime, and special modifiers. </p></SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><p></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:16pt">Data in the 1956, 1979, and 2002 layers were mapped through the Bureau’s status and trends of wetlands and aquatic habitats studies (<a href="</SPAN><A href="https://www.beg.utexas.edu/research/programs/coastal/wetlands/galveston-island-and-bolivar-peninsula" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN><SPAN>https://www.beg.utexas.edu/research/programs/coastal/wetlands/galveston-island-and-bolivar-peninsula</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN STYLE="font-size:16pt">" target="_blank"></SPAN><A href="https://www.beg.utexas.edu/research/programs/coastal/wetlands/galveston-island-and-bolivar-peninsula" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN><SPAN>https://www.beg.utexas.edu/research/programs/coastal/wetlands/galveston-island-and-bolivar-peninsula</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN STYLE="font-size:16pt"></a>).</SPAN><SPAN></p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |