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Today at 8:26 AM  The National Audubon Society began its conservation work in Texas in 1899, making it the oldest citizen conservation group in the lone star state, and this year marks the 90th year of the organizations coastal conservation program.

Wednesday, March 02, 2011  Swooping in with wings extending out ward some six feet, the great blue herons are an impressive sight as they soar to their nesting colony on Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Monday, February 14, 2011  The wildflowers and yuccas are blooming on Green Island, a thirty-five acre site just northeast of the Arroyo Colorado.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010  Isla Verde or Green Island as it is known in English is an oasis of lush and thorny habitat in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Monday, July 05, 2010  Hurricane Alex skirted the Valley, making landfall some 100 miles south, but the exceptionally high tides associated with the storm caused considerable loss of life to shorebirds nesting on spoil islands in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010  It is first light and the wading pool is already teeming with waterbirds.

Monday, June 14, 2010  Several times a week, Audubon Warden Leroy Overstreet glides up to the rickety old pier on Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre and makes his rounds.

Monday, June 07, 2010  Perched above its bulky nest of sticks on Green Island, a great egret pauses before descending. As the adult gracefully touches down on the edge of the nest, it vocalizes to the young.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009  Green Island is home to the nation’s largest nesting colony of reddish egrets where it's now the peak of nesting season.