Featured Harris County May Control Water Plans (Ross Ramsey – The New York Times, 9/14/2013) The wettest part of the state will have an outsize say in the state’s water planning. Houston could account for one-third of the votes in November’s constitutional-amendment election on $2 billion for water projects around the state. In places where the lawns are still green…
Houston Environmental News Update September 17, 2013 CEC NOTES Environmental Forum for Houston City Council Candidates with League of Women Voters Additional CEC Events New subscribers COALITION NOTES Native Plant Society Monthly Meeting A Sustainability Event: Bill Walsh on Indoor Environmental Quality Cherryhurst Bikes! to Celebrate Cycling 2013 Xtreme Hummingbird Xtravaganza Harvest Moon Festival RSA/RDA Fall Lecture Series – RE:Architecture…
Featured HCFCD restoring 95 acres of Katy prairie to its natural state (Zach Haverkamp – The Rancher, 9/10/2013) The Harris County Flood Control District embarked late last month on the “Cypress Creek Site Improvements and Wetlands Construction Project,†a 95-acre prairie creation and restoration effort on a divide between the Cypress Creek and Addicks Reservoir watershed, near the intersection of…