On November 15th and 28th, the Houston Sierra Club (Sierra Club) met with the U.S. Forest Service (FS) to discuss the Montgomery County Wildlife Habitat Improvement Project (MCWHIP). This project would take place in Compartments 31, 32, and 33 on...

The Houston Sierra Club presented awards at the December 13, 2018 general meeting. The Awards Committee solicited and selected recipients for all Houston Sierra Club awards except for the Environmental Reporting and Special Service Awards, which...

The weather was spectacular, and the water level in the cypress swamp was high. Just two days before our December 1 outing, the US Geological Survey’s monitoring station at Liberty, TX (about 27 miles upriver from where we were) had ended a period...

Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for December 2018. Click the title to see the news this month.

All Houston Sierra Club members and their guests are invited to our Holiday Party on December 19 at 6:30pm at the Bay Area Community Center in Clear Lake Park. Please bring a vegetarian side dish: vegetables, fruit, salad, or dessert. The club will...

Houston METRO is currently drafting a new transit plan for the Houston region, called METROnext and a new round of public meetings is expected in early 2019. LINK Houston, a recently established transit advocacy group, has released an Equity in...

The Lone Star Chapter and Regional Houston Group opened their Executive Committee elections on Saturday, December 1. This year, the Lone Star Chapter and Houston Group will have their ballots on the same form, the Chapter candidates first, and...

Houston Sierra Club is a member group of our regional Citizens' Environmental Coalition (CEC), and we encourage your support of this year's Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Tour, one of the largest environmental film festivals in North America...

The city of Houston has experienced three 500 year floods in the past three years. In order to better prepare the region for future storms, we must have a greater understanding of Hurricane Harvey’s impact to our health, housing, and quality of life...

Mother Nature smiled on us. First, there was the beautiful setting. Bates Allen Park, where our group met up on November 17, is located just south of the town of Kendleton and adjacent to one of the units of the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge...