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

By Brandt Mannchen On June 11, 2019, on behalf of the Lone Star Chapter and Houston Regional Group of the Sierra Club, I attended a workshop on Lichen bio-monitoring that was presented by the U.S. Forest Service.... (Read more)

When we talk about wildlife in Texas, we often think about game animals like White-tail Deer, Fox and Gray Squirrels, Wild Turkey, and myriads of ducks, geese, and doves. However, every animal that is not a game or exotic animal, is classified as...

By Ken Kramer According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, a “water column” is “a vertical section of water from the surface to the bottom of the sea, a lake, a river, etc.” However, “The Water Column” is a new monthly feature of the Bayou...

Summary of Items: Houston recycling sent to landfills. "Clothes the Loop" clothing and shoe recycling. Cigarette waste - new solutions for world's most littered trash. Efforts in the Texas Legislature to address plastic pollution were unsuccessful,...

About 10 years ago, the Lone Star Hiking Trail (LSHT) bridge, across the East Fork of the San Jacinto River, in the Magnolia Section (between FM 2025 and FM 945/Butch Arthur Road), was damaged by a flood. Since that time, the bridge has been closed...

Welcome, tell us a little about yourself I was born into a farming family. Your typical "Old McDonald had a farm" environment, i.e., pigs, chickens, cows, horses, and dogs (not the edible ones, LOL). I was a nerd in high school.... (Read...

The program for the August 21 meeting is an Update on Harris County Precinct 2 Flood Control Projects, presented by Jeremy Ratcliff, Precinct 2 Coordinator for the Harris County Flood Control District.... (Read more)

By Cheryl Conley, TWRC Wildlife Center One of our Facebook followers recently posted that this bird “has a face only a mother could love.” Do you know what bird she was talking about? She was referring to the vulture. Vultures have no...

Election time is near for Houston Sierra Club (HSC) members! In December, yearly elections for our Executive Committee (ExCom) will occur. The ExCom is the governing body for the HSC, sets conservation and other policy for our Group, operates...