Watershed Texas

I had the privilege of walking the open coastal prairie wetlands at Sheldon Lake State Park last week during my routine quarterly monitoring. This photopoint monitoring is one of my favorite excuses to do work and get some “pond therapy”.  The restored ponds encompass roughly 315 acres and it takes hours to walk and hit each photopoint for all 15 ponds.  This walk-through gives me perspective and inspiration.  Last June we were already deep in the drought and the wetland ponds were suffering, dominated by mostly dead, brown vegetation.  So what an incredible contrast to walk the same areas a year later and see lush, green, vibrant vegetation!  The restored wetland survived and thrived—a testament to restoration itself and the resiliency of the resource.