Matlacha Pass National Wildlife Refuge and the state's Matlacha Pass Aquatic Preserve encompass the strait and surrounding shorelines.
The notice that the Grenada works received drew the attention of officials here at the National Marine Park, an aquatic preserve off Cancún visited by about 750,000 people annually.
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Fort Pickens State Park Aquatic Preserve, and Big Lagoon State Recreation Area are all along the gulf south of the city.
Highway 27 was constructed before there were rules about protecting wetlands, and it sliced Lake Jackson, a state aquatic preserve, into two.
Over the past two days, most of the fossils we discovered are the remains of aquatic animals, preserved in these rocks that geologic evidence suggests formed near the shoreline of an inland sea.
Scientist at Work Ken Angielczyk, an assistant curator at the Field Museum of Natural History who is searching in Brazil for fossils of the precursors to mammals, posted to nytimes.com/scientistatwork: Over the past two days, most of the fossils we discovered are the remains of aquatic animals, preserved in these rocks that geologic evidence suggests formed near the shoreline of an inland sea.
However, the microfossils of aquatic organisms, preserved in the chronologically layered muds of the Arctic's ubiquitous lakes, provide a good climate history book.
As such, regionally specific management strategies are necessary to mitigate the potential impacts of climate change and preserve aquatic ecosystems and water resources.
Artificial reefs may therefore function to buffer rare and non-migratory species from local extinction in times of drought, and should be considered in efforts to preserve aquatic biodiversity.
