Christmas Bay Foundation

The Christmas Bay Coastal Preserve, in Brazoria County, is a shallow 4,173 acre embayment in the southwestern portion of the Galveston Bay system.  The Bay is a unique high quality subsystem of estuary that has not yet been greatly altered by human activity. The waters of Christmas Bay to the mean high tide line constitutes the preserve. It is approximately 5,700 acres in area. The preserve is one of the most ecologically productive bays of the Galveston complex.

Nearly level prairies are contiguous to extensive fresh and saline marshes and are transected by meandering streams which flow southeast into the western Galveston Bay estuary. Christmas Bay benefits from Brazoria NWR, a 42,000 acre protected wetland which contributes to the preserve’s productivity and helps protect its water quality.

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