The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has released its “Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Feasibility Study”. Send your comments by January 9, 2019...

Houston METRO has posted the latest draft plan for METROnext, the plan it is developing for future area transit projects. This new draft has been labeled Plan 'A Plus' and will be the basis for further discussion and public meetings, where citizens...

With President Trump and his administration, the public must again fight to keep its public lands from being privatized and dedicated to resource exploitation, particularly energy development. A useful tool for public lands advocates, activists,...

Since its founding in the late 1960’s, the Houston Sierra Club (Sierra Club) has advocated for flood management that not only “Keeps people out of harm’s way” but also “Works with, and not against Nature”. These two principles, along with public...

There are different programs within TFS’s two divisions: the Forest Resource Development Division and Sustainable Forestry, and the Forest Resource Protection division. The Texas Forest Service has a wide array of issues that it must deal with....

It seems that everywhere we look we are seeing trees being torn down and grassy areas being turned into parking lots. Sadly, there’s not much we can do about it. There are things you can do, however, to help replenish some of the natural resources...

On November 15th and 28th, the Houston Sierra Club (Sierra Club) met with the U.S. Forest Service (FS) to discuss the Montgomery County Wildlife Habitat Improvement Project (MCWHIP). This project would take place in Compartments 31, 32, and 33 on...

The Houston Sierra Club presented awards at the December 13, 2018 general meeting. The Awards Committee solicited and selected recipients for all Houston Sierra Club awards except for the Environmental Reporting and Special Service Awards, which...

The weather was spectacular, and the water level in the cypress swamp was high. Just two days before our December 1 outing, the US Geological Survey’s monitoring station at Liberty, TX (about 27 miles upriver from where we were) had ended a period...

Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for December 2018. Click the title to see the news this month.