Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for January 2019. Click the title to see the news this month.

For many years (40, off and on) I have provided comments for the Houston Sierra Club (Sierra Club) about Clean Water Act Section 404 permits that are regulated and processed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). These are the permits that...

Often people hike, bike, ride motorcycles and ATVs, and horses on trails and enjoy our federal (national forests, parks, conservation lands, and wildlife refuges), state, and local public lands without thinking how their actions can have serious...

Discussion of "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming" edited by Paul Hawken. Bay Area meetings are on 3rd Wednesday of the month, and start at 6:30pm for social hour; speaker and discussion from 7-8:30 pm...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has released its “Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Feasibility Study”. Send your comments by January 9, 2019...

Houston METRO has posted the latest draft plan for METROnext, the plan it is developing for future area transit projects. This new draft has been labeled Plan 'A Plus' and will be the basis for further discussion and public meetings, where citizens...

With President Trump and his administration, the public must again fight to keep its public lands from being privatized and dedicated to resource exploitation, particularly energy development. A useful tool for public lands advocates, activists,...

Since its founding in the late 1960’s, the Houston Sierra Club (Sierra Club) has advocated for flood management that not only “Keeps people out of harm’s way” but also “Works with, and not against Nature”. These two principles, along with public...

There are different programs within TFS’s two divisions: the Forest Resource Development Division and Sustainable Forestry, and the Forest Resource Protection division. The Texas Forest Service has a wide array of issues that it must deal with....

It seems that everywhere we look we are seeing trees being torn down and grassy areas being turned into parking lots. Sadly, there’s not much we can do about it. There are things you can do, however, to help replenish some of the natural resources...