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Long an exceptional fresh water fishery and a haven for ducks, wading birds and other wildlife, Lake Livingston is nearly 60 years old. It has lost much of its aquatic habitat and the water quality has declined. Once a destination for bass anglers, there has seen a precipitous decline in angling activity. Recreation on Lake Livingston is a major economic engine for numerous surrounding communities and the decline in the fishery has negatively affected local revenues.
Friends of Lake Livingston is restoring habitat for fish and wildlife populations by adding aquatic and riparian plants to create feeding and breeding grounds and reducing erosion!
The long-term goal of the project is to increase the abundance and diversity of native aquatic plant species and riparian habitat in and around Lake Livingston, TX, thereby improving littoral habitat conditions for the fish community and other aquatic life. Texas Parks & Wildlife has proposed that a successful restoration will need to cover 5% - (4,250 acres) of the lake and/or shoreline habitat.

Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) and the Trinity River Authority (TRA) are both co-sponsors of the Friends of Lake Livingsotn project. TPWD approves all plants before introduction into the lake and both TPWD and TRA approve the planting sites that we recommend. Both TPWD and TRA assist in the planting process as well as giving us support for the ongoing project. TPWD has a lake management plan and the FoLL project is noted in that plan as one of the means of improvement of aquatic habitat both via our aquatic plant introduction as well as constructing artificial reef habitats. TRA specifically has been instrumental in assisting insertion of artificial habitats into Lake Livingston (both Georgia Cubes and Mossback artificial reefs). TPWD posts the GPS locations of these reefs on their website.

White Bass, Black Bass, Striped Bass, Crappie, Blue and Channel Catfish

FoLL has built a broad outreach plan that includes:
• Updated website – friendsoflakelivington.com
• Active Facebook site updates
• Bi-annual community newsletter
• Posting of activity in local community newspapers
• Presentations on the FoLL project to the local “Hookers” fishing club and The Woodlands Texas Hiking Club (both in 2021)
• Yearly Ecology outreach to our 8 participating local high school agriculture programs (postponed the last 12 months for covid reasons)
o Education on lake ecology, littoral habitat, lake conservation, horticulture, active plant propagation in supplied propagation tanks, invertebrate monitoring, riparian habitat restoration and water quality testing
o NOTE – this was not executed in 2020/2021 due to Covid restrictions at the high schools
• Yearly instruction of Texas Master Naturalist concepts at the Texas Dept. of Corrections Lee College horticulture program including lake ecology, plant propagation, and supplied propagation tanks (ongoing in 2020 and 2021 in spite of covid protocols)