Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters
July 16, 2015
I learned that the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site is located on high ground. It is interesting how we take it for granted that this battle was won, but we never take the time to analyze why it was won, the events that assisted or the use of the landscape as an advantage to win the battle. It was amazing to learn that the salt in the ground helped American soldiers win the battle.
This site is on the Brownsville Ship Channel Watershed. It then flows into the Bahia Grande-Brownsville Ship Channel Sub Watershed.
I learned that this area and many others in the Rio Grande Valley that have water will have Spartina. Many different types of fish such as Red fish go into the Spartina looking for fiddler crabs to feed on.
I came across this sign and thought how wonderful it was that there are areas that are restricted. I thought that in a wildlife refuge visitors were allowed to go anywhere they would like to investigate. I never stopped to think that the purpose was not only for us to have the opportunity to see these beautiful animals in their natural habitat, but also to make them feel comfortable in the habitat and continue to frequent the area. If we were allowed to go into these areas, the probability that these animals would return would be low due to our intrusion on their habitat.
Laguna Atascosa has two sub watersheds one is the Laguna Atascosa and the other is the Bahia Grande-Brownsville Ship Channel. These flow into the Laguna Atascosa and Brownsville Ship Channel Watersheds. The flow continues to the South Laguna Madre River Sub Basin and ending with the Nueces-Rio Grande Coastal Basin River Basin.
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