Stringfellow WMA Is Bottomland Forest on the San Bernard

Near the town of Brazoria, the Nannie M. Stringfellow Wildlife Management Area covers about 3,666 acres in the San Bernard River floodplain. It shows the wooded river-bottom side of Brazoria County, not the beach-and-marsh picture most visitors have.

Because it sits in the floodplain, TPWD notes that the area floods often. The bottomland forest gives cover to neotropical migratory songbirds moving through the Gulf Coast. The land came to TPWD as part of coastal bottomlands mitigation.

Stringfellow is not an open-gate park. TPWD lists it as open for special hunts only, so access depends on the WMA rules and hunt program.