We drove up to the park entrance fee station and there everyone was. It seemed like we all had arrived almost at the same time. What a miracle! There was David, Luther, An, Tea, Betsy, Corinne, Christa, Lisa, Barry, Sara, Andrew, Taylor, Von,...

Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for June 2017. Click the title to see the news this month.

The Houston People’s Climate March was held on April 29, 2017, at Clinton Park located just outside of the 610 East Loop in Houston. It was estimated that there were between 400 to 500 people in attendance. There were speeches by Mayor Sylvester...

My name is John Romo. I’ve lived here in Houston, on and off, over a span of time approaching twenty years. I’ve dedicated whatever free time I’ve had here, to finding the nearby wild places, although for me, it was a learning process. In the...

Houston METRO has started to develop a new Regional Transportation Plan that will define the next steps for transit and mobility improvements in the Houston region. METRO has a page at their website dedicated to the Plan which provides a brief...

Plastic pollution costs the City of Houston $21 million to prevent, enforce, educate and clean up litter (1). This figure comes from a study on the costs of litter and illegal dumping in nine cities in Texas. Texans for Clean Water commissioned...

Story by Tom DouglasPhotos by Linda Shead, Taylor Cutshall, and Tom Douglas On Sunday May 21, our fleet of five canoes and nine kayaks set out to explore the San Bernard River near the town of Kendleton, Texas.  This stretch of the river,...

The Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) recently launched the Galveston Bay Action Network as a downloadable mobile app for iPhone and Android. This app allows users to report any land or water pollution within minutes. Reports are automatically sent to...

You have probably heard about the floating plastic garbage patches that occupy large gyres in the world’s oceans.  Well, some good news! – a remarkable project to start cleaning up this plastic debris is underway and expected to begin...

The North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) is up for reauthorization by the U.S. Congress.  This law is needed for wetlands conservation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, non-governmental...