HUG: What to Plant and Do Now in your Veggie Garden. The next meeting of Houston Urban Gardeners will be Monday January 9 at 6:30 PM at the Houston Garden Center, 1500 Hermann Dr. in Hermann Park. Carol Brouwer, Ph.D., will share full-color mouth-watering slides to illustrate what others and she have grown at their home gardens. She will also talk…
Whooping Crane Trial. After a two-week trial in federal district court in Corpus Christi, the trial concluded yesterday afternoon in The Aransas Project’s lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act to ensure adequate freshwater inflows to San Antonio Bay to protect the endangered whooping cranes that winter at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. After the trial, TAP’s lead attorney Jim Blackburn said, “We…
Featured Houston moving forward with longtime Luce Bayou project (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 12/26/2011) Plans are moving forward with the Luce Bayou project, a nearly $300 million pipeline and canal that will move water from the Trinity River about 30 miles to Lake Houston. This project will help to provide water to the expanding city and suburbs. The Luce…