Harte Research Institute Initiative Bring Baffin Back Is One of 4 Texan By Nature Conservation Wrangler Projects for 2022

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The nonprofit project accelerator program founded by former First Lady Laura Bush – Texan by Nature – has selected the Bring Back Baffin Back: Restoring and Protecting a Texas Treasure initiative (BBB) as one of four projects that will receive up to 18 months of tailored support through its Conservation Wrangler project in 2022. Led by Dr. Michael Wetz, Chair for Coastal Ecosystem Processes at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Dr. Kiersten Stanzel, Director of Partnerships for the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, BBB consists of a stakeholder group of at least 131 members that seek to address the key issues in the decline of Baffin Bay watershed.