Calendar

Mar
20
Sat
Nature Walk Tour @ The Water Works
Mar 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)

Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.

Apr
17
Sat
Nature Walking Tour @ The Water Works
Apr 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Parking: City Lot H

Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.

May
15
Sat
Nature Walking Tour @ The Water Works
May 15 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)

Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.

Jun
19
Sat
Nature Walking Tour @ The Water Work
Jun 19 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)

Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.

Jul
17
Sat
Nature Walking Tour @ The Water Works
Jul 17 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)

Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.

Aug
25
Wed
Community Conversation: Hurricane Harvey @ Online
Aug 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

U.S. Representative Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (D-Houston) and special guests USACE Galveston District Col. Timothy Vail, Harris County Flood Control District’s Alan Black, and City of Houston Chief Recovery Officer Steve Costello, will be the panelists of a Community Conservation on Hurricane Harvey on Wednesday, August 25 at 6 p.m.

Register at:  https://fletcher.house.gov/forms/form/?ID=63

Sep
18
Sat
Nature Walking Tour @ The Water Works
Sep 18 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)

Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.

Nov
20
Sat
Nature Walking Tour @ The Water Works
Nov 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)

Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem

Jan
15
Sat
Nature Walking Tour @ The Water Works
Jan 15 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Time: 10:30 to 12:00 pm
Parking: City Lot H
Location: The Water Works at Buffalo Bayou Park (105 Sabine St.)

Enjoy a free walking tour in Buffalo Bayou Park highlighting the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas that created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.

Jan
26
Wed
32nd Annual Sadie Gwin Blackburn Environmental Seminar: Thomas Woltz @ The Houston Museum of Fine Arts The Audrey Jones Beck Building
Jan 26 @ 11:30 am

The River Oaks Garden Club’s speaker is Thomas Woltz, the landscape architect with Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW), who is responsible for the Memorial Park renovation plan including the Eastern Glades and the land bridge currently under construction.  Mr. Woltz will discuss the role of landscape architecture in designing equity and community wellness in civic spaces.  In his role as Principal of NBW, Thomas and his team have developed a body of work that responds to complex ecological systems and amplifies the historical and cultural narratives of the landscape.