Big_Boggy_National_Wildlife_Refuge

Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge

Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge

Bird sanctuary in southeastern Matagorda County, Texas

The Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife conservation area along the coast of Texas (USA) in southeastern Matagorda County, south of the towns of Bay City and Wadsworth. It borders a bay behind a barrier island at the Gulf of Mexico. Established in 1983 and encompassing 5,000 acres (20 km2) of salt marsh.[1]

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Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge (bottom left) along the coast of southeast Texas.

Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge is for the birds. The refuge is only open to the public for waterfowl hunting season and for special activities.[1]

Three national wildlife refuges on the Texas coast - Brazoria, San Bernard and Big Boggy - form a vital complex of coastal wetlands harboring more than 300 bird species.[2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    FWS (September 2008). "BigBoggy Refuge". FWS.gov. Archived from the original on 23 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
  2. [2]
    FWS (September 2008). "San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge". FWS.gov. Archived from the original on March 9, 2005. Retrieved 2008-09-20.

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