Our focus and purpose are to promote ecology-specific education.

To this end, we have published and designed a "Top Ten Birding Hotspots" infographic (Matagorda County); conceived and produced Matagorda Magic: The Hidden Life of a Texas Bay (TAMU Press); and produced, managed, and sponsored the Matagorda Bay Birdfest for nine years.

Additionally, we sponsored eight workshops for young adults in libraries and school venues from Corpus Christi to Galveston (2024); created an arts and science program for twenty youth in an afterschool program, “The Marsh Keepers Club,” at the Palacios Boys & Girls Club (suspended during Covid); and generally educated to raise awareness of the Matagorda Bay Area, including ecology, legacy, local species preservation, and conservation.

Current initiatives include the creation of an Artist in Residency program (MARSH AIR). A final, long-term project (nine years) has been a yearly, county-wide youth art contest focused on a different local bird species. Fifty winners annually receive cash prizes and books at three grade levels, resulting in a Cornell Bird Sleuth publication highlighting our winning entries of the American Oystercatcher in 2018.