Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens. Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens welcomed their new director, Darrin Duling over the summer. In a recent media breakfast and garden tour event, Darrin Duling revealed the organization’s exciting plans for the future. These include redesigning the Daylily Garden into a classic European-style garden called “The Formal Garden”, redeveloping the tropical and ginger gardens, installing…
Addicks Dam/Grand Parkway Litigation.The hearing for a preliminary injunction on Segment E of the Grand Parkway was held on November 16th. The case, Sierra Club vs. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers et.al., is centered on the increased risks resulting from the additional runoff into the Addicks Reservoir that would be generated from the Segment E construction and secondary development in…
Featured Near-term and long-term, projections include more dry conditions in Texas (Texas Climate News, 11/28/2011) The National Weather Service and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released reports this month on climate change and extreme weather events. Both reports predicted that very dry conditions are to remain for Texas. Meanwhile, the latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows…