The Houston Sierra Club has participated in many ecosystem restoration projects. These projects include planting saltmarsh grass, planting Longleaf Pine trees, cutting woody plants on prairies, and controlled burns. These ecosystem restoration...

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

The program for the July 17th meeting of the Bay Area Sierra Club is "How can we personally lead Greener Lives?" with Candy Anderson as Discussion Leader. Emphasis will be on getting attendees to say what they are doing to live more...

Houston METRO is expected to finalize its METROnext transit plan in the next several weeks in anticipation of placing a bond referendum on the November 2019 ballot. METRO may schedule a final round of public meetings in July or August. If those...

My name is Alex Paul. I am currently a student at University of Houston – Clear Lake pursuing a master’s in environmental science. I am currently working on my thesis which focuses on micro-plastic pollution in Cypress Creek. After I graduate, I...

By Tom Douglas During river trips, we often notice how the current slows down when the river flows into a lake or a bay. This slowing-down allows sediment that had been suspended in the flowing river to drop out, often forming a sandbar...

Recently, we heard that Former Houston Sierra Club Chair, Tom Ivy, is under the weather and not able to attend Houston Sierra Club meetings. We wish Tom a speedy recovery and hope we will see him soon.... (Read more)

On Saturday, June 22, 2019, 37 Houston Sierra Club members and visitors met at “Serenity Studios”, 1331 Yale Street, in the Heights, and celebrated summer with a “Sierra Social”. Good food, a free drawing for a “cool” book, a rousing talk about the...

Over the years the Houston Sierra Club has offered a variety of regional outings, including day hikes, canoe/kayak outings, bike tours and service outings; as well as camping trips to a variety of state and national parks in Texas and across the...

Recently, Warren Oja, District Ranger for Sam Houston National Forest (SHNF), retired from the U.S. Forest Service (FS) after working more than 45 years as a public servant. Warren spent time in Alaska and California before he came to Texas in the...