Houston Environmental News Update January 28, 2014 COALITION NOTES 2014 HAUFC Tree Planting Competition. The Houston Area Urban Forestry Council, Harris County Flood Control District, CenterPoint Energy and Trees For Houston are once again sponsoring the Great Texas Tree Planting Competition to be held in conjunction with local Arbor Day celebrations. Each team will consist of 10 planting members and…
Featured Planned highway could cut into prized Katy Prairie (Matthew Tresaugue, Houston Chronicle, 1/23/2014) Mary Anne Piacentini’s dream is for the Katy Prairie, a wide-open grassland some 40 miles west of Houston, to become a living reminder of a once common and bountiful landscape. For decades, her Katy Prairie Conservancy has purchased land here with the goal of preserving it…
Please join the Citizens’ Environmental Coalition the afternoon of Thursday, February 13, 2014, at the United Way Community Resource Center at 50 Waugh Drive in Houston. Preliminary Agenda Each year, the greater Houston environmental community gathers to discuss topical environmental issues facing our region. For each of the issues, attendees are asked to envision collaborative actions for the coming year…