Padre Island Administrative History

¹R. Gerald Wright, Wildlife Research and Management in the National Parks, pp. 21-23.

²Memorandum, to the Regional Director, Region Three, from V.H. Cahalane, Biologist, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Chicago, Illinois, March 19, 1947.

³Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Sunday, February 9, 1947.

⁴Dr. Lynn Drawe, "Succession of Vegetation on Padre Island National Seashore," Welder Wildlife Foundation, 1990.

⁵Aquatic and Waterfowl Resources Management Plan for Padre Island National Seashore - 1969-1979, 1968-69. The Resource Management Plan (RMP) was revised in 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1994, and 1996.

⁶Ibid, pp. 8-9.

⁷Ibid.

⁸Ibid., p. 10.

⁹Derrick Hambly, "Sand Movement, Speed and Direction," unpublished report filed in PAIS archives Flour Bluff, identified as PAIS-N-3, no date.

¹⁰Weise, pp. 43-45.

¹¹Resources Management Plan - 1986 Revision, Padre Island National Seashore, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, pp. 32-33.

¹²Ibid.

¹³Horizon Environmental Services, Inc., Final Report, Padre Island National Seashore Vegetative History, June 1989.

¹⁴Stanley L. Sissom, Ph.D., et al, Baseline Study - Three Ponds within Padre island National Seashore Park, December 1990.

¹⁵Results cited in Horizon Environmental Services, Inc., Final Report, Padre Island National Seashore Vegetative History, June 1989, and Stanley L. Sissom, Ph.D., et al, Baseline Study - Three Ponds within Padre Island National Seashore Park, December 1990.

¹⁶C. Andrew Cole, William Gregg, David Manski, Annual Report of National Park Marine Debris Monitoring Program, National Park Service Natural Resources Publication Office, July 1992.

¹⁷John E. Miller, Sean Baker, and Darrell Echols, Marine Debris Point Source Investigation 1994-1995, published by Padre Island National Seashore, June 1995.

¹⁸Ibid.

¹⁹Ibid.

²⁰Ibid.

²¹Superintendent's Annual Report, 1988.

²²Resources Management Plan - 1986 Revision, Padre Island National Seashore, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, 1986, p. 82.

²³John Miller, comments and notes, 1996.

²⁴Ibid.

²⁵Resources Management Plan - 1968 Revision, pp. 21-22.

²⁶Ibid.

²⁷Ibid.

²⁸Ibid.

²⁹R.A. Morton and M.J. Pieper, Shoreline Changes on Central Padre Island, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, 1975, 1977a; 1977b.

³⁰John Miller, comments and notes, 1996.

³¹Ibid.

³²Memorandum to Superintendent, Padre Island National Seashore from chief Scientist, Southwest Regional Office, "Ridley Turtle Project at Padre Island," April 1974.

³³Copy of typewritten proposal from Dr. J.R. Hendrickson.

³⁴"Sea Turtles: A Declining Species" information sheet published by Padre Island National Seashore, National Park Service, no date.

³⁵This information is found at PAIS Headquarters Archives as is a copy of the 16mm tape of Senor Herrara.

³⁶Between 1978 and 1988 the Environmental Services Division (Resources Management Division) employed a number of researchers including James Woods, Robert King, and Donna Shaver. From notes of Donna Shaver October 1995.

³⁷Donna Shaver, "Padre Island National Seashore, Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Project, 1989 Report," US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, September 1989 and same author, same title from November 1992 report. Additional material on this project is available in Box 78A at the Gulf Ranger Station library, PAIS.

³⁸John Miller, notes and comments to the author, 1996.

³⁹Ibid.

⁴⁰Ibid.

⁴¹Ibid.

⁴²Ibid.

⁴³John Miller, comments and notes, 1966.

⁴⁴Ibid.

⁴⁵William S. Seegar, et al. "Aerial Surveys of Spring Migrant Peregrine Falcons Along the Texas Mexican Gulf Coasts," c. 1982, pp. 1-2.

⁴⁶David R. Zimmerman, "The Peregrine America's Most Endangered Falcon," National Parks and Conservation Magazine, September 1972, pp. 5-6.

⁴⁷William S. Seegar, et al. "Aerial Surveys of Spring Migrant Peregrine Falcons Along the Texas Mexican Gulf Coasts," c. 1982, pp. 1-2.

⁴⁸Dr. Kenton E. Riddle, et al. "Report Spring 1983 Survey of Migratory Peregrines on North and South Padre Island, Texas," pp. 1-2.

⁴⁹John Miller, comments and notes, 1996.

⁵⁰Resources Management Plan - 1986, p. 11-13.

⁵¹Ibid.

⁵²Ibid.

⁵³John Miller, comments and notes, 1996.

⁵⁴Superintendent's Annual Report, 1988, p. 3.

⁵⁵Oil and Gas Report for Padre Island National Seashore, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Land Resources Division, Mining and Minerals Branch, July 3, 1990.

⁵⁶John Miller, comments and notes, 1996.

⁵⁷Ibid.

⁵⁸Ibid.