By Brandt Mannchen I was early on my drive to the Katy Prairie Conservancy’s (KPC) Indiangrass Prairie at their field office in Grimes County. I stopped at KPC’s observation platform at Warren Lake on the 6,000-acre Warren Ranch.... (Read...

What you need to know By Cheryl Conley, TWRC Wildlife Center And so it begins. Baby season 2020 and it all begins with baby squirrels. There are a number of reasons why baby squirrels get separated from mom.... (Read more)

Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for February 2020. Click the title to see the news this month.

By Ken Kramer After an extended holiday hiatus, The Water Column returns to highlight a wave of water issues engulfing Texas and the Houston-Galveston region at the beginning of a new decade.... (Read more)

On February 19, we will have Popcorn Night at the Movies, with selected movies and discussion, plus Peter Bowman discussing six environmental books that were Steve Allen’s.... (Read more)

By Brandt Mannchen Early on Monday morning, January 20, 2020, Martin Luther King Junior’s national holiday, a group of Houston Sierra Club volunteers drove to Big Thicket National Preserve, Big Sandy Creek Unit, to honor this civil rights “...

Due to a wide array of public concerns about the impacts of the I-45 expansion/realignment project on existing neighborhoods and bayou park lands, Houston's City Planning Dept. scheduled three public meetings to take comments.... (Read more)

A conservation team within the City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department (HPARD) is focused on preserving and restoring habitat throughout Houston. Ongoing efforts include the targeted preservation of over 7,000 acres of land and the creation...

One way to reduce carbon emissions, traffic congestion, and the stress of driving and parking in Houston is to use public transportation. And public transit is 10-times safer! than driving.... (Read more)

By Tom Douglas This outing was originally planned for the Cypress Wonderland, but when the lowest water level of the year was recorded at the Lake Charlotte gauge on December 2, our advance river scouts reported their findings, and adverse...