Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for April 2021. Click the title to see the news this month.

This is the second article in a series on the I-45 highway expansion. It focuses on legal updates and impacts on other community organizations and businesses.... (Read more)

Environment2Action Film Series Presents: Conviction, Forget Shorter Showers, Good Housekeeping and Fault Line: Houston Cancer Cluster. Join Sierra Club on Zoom to view these three short environmental films on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 7 pm... (...

By Cheryl Conley, TWRC Wildlife Center It’s happened to most of us. We hear something hit a window and when we go outside to check it out, we find a little bird laying on the ground.... (Read more)

Solar United Neighbors (SUN) is a unique non-profit that helps individuals or neighborhoods go solar by forming local co-ops, which are free to join. SUN will be organizing a new solar co-op in Houston beginning in May.... (Read more)

The Houston Group and Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club visited Compartments 110 and 111 on the east side of Sam Houston National Forest. This is part of our Forest Watch activities that the Sierra Club conducts periodically.... (Read more)

On April 8, Tom Douglas, longtime Houston Sierra Club member and canoe/kayak outings leader, will talk about paddling trails on our local bayous.... (Read more)

The April Bay Area Sierra Club Meeting features Jim Blackburn: Virus Vigil, Poetry from the Pandemic on Wednesday, on April 21, at 7:00 pm.... (Read more)

Sheldon Lake State Park is a dichotomy of natural features; one side of the park is prairie and the other boasts 25 ponds each with distinct personality and characteristics.... (Read more)

By Brandt MannchenI felt cooped up lately with Covid still out and about. I decided to change that trajectory and visit the over 44,000-acre Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge to view some end-of-Winter birds and get away from it all. ... (...