Featured Why A Conservation Group Needs Millions In Less Than A Week To Preserve Prairie (Florian Martin – KUHF News, 8/13/2013) Deer Park may be known to most as housing dozens of oil refineries. What few know is that it also houses the “platinum standard of prairies.†This may be the most diverse 50-acre patch of prairie left in the…
Houston Environmental News Update August 13, 2013 CEC NOTES Contribute to the News! COALITION NOTES Is it the End for Deer Park Prairie? Public Meeting to Discuss Main Street Enhancements Houston Audubon Bird Survey Cedar Bayou Watershed Partnership EaDo Pubcrawl to benefit Air Alliance Houston Wildlife Workday on the Strand Jones Park Fabulous Nighttime Flyers: Bats Armand Bayou Owl Prowl…
Featured Whooping Crane Case Could Affect State Water Supplies (Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune – KUHF News, 8/11/2013) As drought conditions and dry forecasts persist across Texas, lawyers will argue a case in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday that could have major implications for water supplies in the state — and for natural resource…