Featured Rising acidity of Texas bays concerns scientists (Matthew Tresaugue – Houston Chronicle, 3/17/2015) “Many Texas bays are souring as fresh water grows scarcer because of drought and increasing urban demands, a change that could harm oysters and other shellfish and in time reverberate through the food chain, scientists reported Tuesday. Researchers from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi found a steady…
Featured Not Everyone Is Thrilled With Memorial Park’s Master Plan (Dianna Wray – Houston Press Blogs, 3/9/2015) “The Memorial Park Conservancy is finishing up gathering public input on the new master plan that will govern how the park evolves over the next 20 years, but not everyone is thrilled with the changes the conservancy is pitching. While the officials with…
Featured What Dallas can learn from Houston’s Buffalo Bayou for the Trinity River project (Mark Lamster – Dallas Morning News, 2/26/2015) “How do you transform the flood plain of a neglected urban waterway into a grand public park and metropolitan gateway? Dallas has been struggling with this challenge for more than 20 years, making incremental progress on the Trinity River…