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Houston Sierra Club (local branch of the Sierra Club) holds outings for outdoor activities: hiking, camping, bicycling, backpacking, kayaking, etc. These include local one-day events, weekend trips, and week long trips to National Parks and other destinations.
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SC Water for People & Env. Comm: Environmental Flows & River Ecosystems
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Virtual: Environmental Flows and River Ecosystems
Monday, November 9, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Link to register: Water for People & the Environment: Environmental Flows and River EcosystemsThis is the Water for People & Environment Committee's meeting for all Texans interested in water issues, advocacy, organizing and networking.
Speaker: Collin Garoutte, Wildlife & Fisheries Biologist, Ecological Research Group, Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
Given the diversity of hydrological sensitivities and growing populations across Texas, it is increasingly important for resource professionals, policymakers, and citizens to understand the demands placed upon aquatic resources so that riverine systems can be managed in a manner that supports ecological resilience while meeting the growing social and economic needs of the state.
Although Texas has enacted legislation aimed at improving scientific understanding of environmental flow requirements, challenges remain that involve a variety of competing socioeconomic interests, the stochastic nature of fluvial processes, and the ecological responses to changing flow regimes. This presentation provides an overview of environmental flow concepts, discusses challenges associated with implementation, and highlights field-based observations from the San Antonio and San Marcos Rivers that illustrate relationships between hydrologic and ecological processes.
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Visit to Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge for Fall Birding
Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge - Discovery Center, 2072 Hoskins Mound Rd, Angleton, TX 77515, USA, Angleton, TX, USSaturday, November 14, 2025, 8:30 am., join the Houston Sierra Club (HSC) for a tour of Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge (BNWR). We’ll look for American Alligators, ducks, wading birds, shorebirds, songbirds, raptors, waterfowl, other native wildlife.
Lunch will be a “bring your own” and we’ll eat at the covered pavilion next to a wetlands pond. This federal wildlife refuge is managed for us by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The BNWR is located on 44,000-acres of wetlands/prairie in southeastern Brazoria County.
The link below has the Sierra Club participant sign-in agreement (liability waiver). Please read this before the outing so you know what it says. We’ll sign-in quickly at BNWR and proceed with the outing. Sign-Up Sheet 2-2020.pdf (sierraclub.org).
If anyone has COVID symptoms or is sick don’t come! We want everyone to be safe. We’ll potentially be with individuals who are vaccinated/unvaccinated. It’s each person’s choice to participate on this outing.
Bring water (2 qts), snacks, lunch, hat, bug repellent, sunscreen, binoculars, spotting scopes, cameras, field guides, and weather appropriate clothes. We’ll bird from our cars on the auto-tour and from short trails. This outing is limited to 20 people. No pets/firearms/radios. Put cell phones on vibrate so we enjoy the solitude/quiet/natural sounds at BNWR.
Meet your leader (gray Honda CRV hybrid) at 7:30 am, just W. of Starbucks in Meyerland Plaza, in the parking lot (4700 block of Beechnut) if you want to carpool/caravan. Be on time so we can get to BNWR by 8:30 am!
If you have questions, contact Brandt Mannchen at the HSC Meet-up site, 281-570-7212, or email: brandt_mannchen@comcast.net. Directions to BNWR are:
1. S on SH 288 to Business SH 288 (BSH)/Spur 300, Angleton.
2. Exit SH 288, turn lt onto BSH 288.
3. S on BSH 288 to FM 523.
4. Turn lt onto FM 523 and 5.5 miles past FM 2004 turn lt onto Hoskins Mound Rd (CR 227).
5. Go 1.7 miles, BNWR entrance is on rt. Meet at Discovery Center/pond/parking lot.6 attendees
Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter: Legislative Action Team Virtual Meeting
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION TEAM MONTHLY MEETING
Thursday, November 19, 2026; 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Central)Link to register:
To be posted when availableThe topic for November meeting will be posted when available.
Early next year, Texas legislators will be debating the state budget, deciding how your taxpayer dollars will be spent for the next two years.Public hearings on the budget began this month with each agency making their requests to the Legislative Budget Board to fund the two-year budget in 2028 and 2029. The Sierra Club is supporting many of these requests, but also calling for specific investments to better protect our communities and environment.
Join us on Thursday, September 17 to learn how to get involved in advocacy that directly impacts how the state invests our money. From public testimony to written comments, to sending messages to targeted legislators, there are so many ways to make a difference.
Our 2027 Legislative Policy Platform makes it easy for you to contact your state legislators and tell them that these issues are important to you. We outline four key areas that we believe will make life a little easier, and a lot safer, for all Texans:
Clean, Reliable & Affordable Energy for All Texans
Clean Air, Water & Healthy Communities
Protecting Texas Lands, Wildlife & Coasts
Sustainable Water & Climate ResilienceThere's a lot to talk about, so here is a blog about it:
Texas Legislature Heats Up with New Charges and Upcoming Hearings | Sierra ClubPhoto Texas State Capitol courtesy of Al Braden
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