Photo by Clayton Church | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District | 03.05.2014
Marcia Hackett, a senior environmental planner with the Regional Planning Environmental Center in Fort Worth, takes a paddlefish from District Fisher Biologist Mike Bister, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prior to releasing it into the Big Cypress Bayou near downtown Jefferson, Texas, March 5. Forty-Seven paddle fish were released into the watershed as part of a demonstration program designed......
Photo by Clayton Church | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District | 03.05.2014
Pete Diaz and Mike Montagne, both with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in San Marcos, Texas, work to release a paddlefish into Caddo Lake, March 5. The demonstration program is designed to show increased diversity to help meet the environment flow criteria and ecological needs of the downstream floodplain and river system between Lake O’ the Pines and Caddo Lake....
Photo by Clayton Church | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District | 03.05.2014
Pete Diaz with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pauses while fine tuning the electronics of one of the antennas that track the movement of paddlefish along the Big Cypress Bayou between Lake O’ the Pines and Caddo Lake. This particular antenna is located on private property and demonstrates the cooperation of the stakeholders involved with the Big Cypress Bayou/Caddo Lake Sustainable......
