The project manifests as a long walkway flanked with two types of walls. Over the course of a month, students built the observation deck learning both about construction and the ecology of Galveston Island. In partnership with Artist Boat, the Gulf Coast Design Lab at The University of Texas at Austin designed this project with multiple site visits, research, and talks with Artist Boat. The goal is to inspire its visitors to connect with nature in a new way that instills a sense of responsibility to protect the diminishing habitat of native plants and animals. Commissioned by the nonprofit Artist Boat, this platform is for the public to pause and take a moment to experience the natural prairie grasses of the island. Looking across a pond, this site is excellent for birding. This project is an observation platform located at the corner of Settegast and Stewart Roads in Galveston, Texas. Thank you to so many more individuals who purchased Individual Tickets! Young, Ed.D with Never A Dull Moment Farm assists with the overall up keep of the Bird Observatory over the course of the next year fees for permits of the fence, bird observatory, parking pad, and more delivery charges for materials to develop the area costs of trash removal chalk and erasers for chalk board reveal party (tent, chairs, treats, and libations) Music for the Birds performance and more! Thompson M.D., Mort & Brenda Voller, Rick Benson & Susan Walker, Doug Little & Bonnie White, Ruth & Marshall Yost, Robert D. Wholesale Buidling Materials, Houston Audubon, Cynthia & Dan Hughes, Claire Reiswerg, Norma & Sandy Rubin, Karen Shattuck, Barbara L. Richard & Charlotte Alexander, Bets Anderson, Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council, Galveston. Kenneth & Carol Booth, Bud Light/Silver Eagle Distributors, Casa Del Mar Beachfront Suites, Valerie Cone, Fish Company Taco, Kim & Rob Kirschner, Alice Anne O’Donnell, Sanctuary Builders & Michele Alvarado, Sand ‘N Sea Properties supported the installation of a drainage culvert in the public easement native plantings to further shield the birds from people walking from the parking pad to the Bird Observatory installation and fabrication of the gate, the gate signage, and locking system fabrication and installation of rules and nature interpretive signage near the Bird Observatory a donation box and signage to further sustain the area in perpetuity and more! Cullen Geiselman, Janet & Ben Hock, Jr., Luke Alexander Greenfield Johnson, Kelly Kelley, Keith & Julie Little, Port Houston,supported a birding Kiosk and Chalkboard (featuring a “What Did You See?” chalkboard, sponsor and rule signage, and birding lists) Artist Boat’s crew time and materials to install a boardwalk from the parking area to the Bird Observatory Screening and Rental of the Port-O-Let for a year and a great blue heron bike rack. McGovern Foundation, and Mary Warwick, helped protect wildlife with fencing around the parking area to ensure there is no vehicular access to the rest of the Preserve. Galveston Park Board of Trustees, Peaches Kempner, John P. J.P Bryan, West Galveston Island Property Owners Association, and CenterPoint Energy supported a permeable parking pad for ADA access to the Oppenheimer Bird Observatory.
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