[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
—Robert Swan” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Noto%20Serif%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ accent_color=”#829e31″][vc_custom_heading text=”Even in the midst of the fourth most populous city in the United States, Wildlife Habitat Federation has found ways to bring the focus back to conservation. We have worked on multiple projects in Houston, TX.
We call these urban projects “pocket prairies.“ People have always wanted clean air, soil and water, but since the Covid-19 pandemic began, there has been increased demand for clean, open spaces. Cities not only can benefit from improved air, water and soil, they can also benefit through more opens spaces for citizens to enjoy the beautiful outdoors.
Thanks to Texas legislation, no Home Owners Association can prevent you from planting Texas native grasses on your land. We’d love to help you get started with your own pocket prairie!” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Noto%20Sans%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Houston Memorial Park & Land Bridge” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Noto%20Sans%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHs_2pmSfa0&t=2s” align=”center”][vc_column_text]
Garry Stephens, Wildlife Biologist and Program Director of the Wildlife Habitat Federation, has consulted on the Memorial Park Conservancy project on behalf of WHF. We are proud to play a role in this impressive project.
“There is nothing like it that we have identified…that exists in the world.”
View the Grand Opening of the Memorial Park Land Bridge here
(Watch through 1 minute and 10 seconds for most informative content regarding the project)
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Wildlife Habitat Federation proudly played a role in adding a pocket prairie at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. This gave patients at the hospital an outdoor retreat, in addition to the many benefits of planting native grasses.
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“Katy High School, under the direction of the Katy Prairie Conservancy and the Wildlife Habitat Federation, is creating a native prairie ecosystem… In August of 2017, the Greater Houston area was hit by Hurricane Harvey, a catastrophic flooding event. Many areas received 40″ or more of rain; rising flood waters had nowhere to go in a city covered in concrete (a barrier to natural infiltration), causing over $125 billion in damage, and inundating hundreds of thousands of homes. More than 30,000 people were displaced.
In 2018, Katy High School responded by kicking-off a project that will restore an acre of public campus property to native Texas Gulf Coast prairie. The prairie will ultimately contain 30-50 different native plant species, serving as an outdoor classroom for students, and a greenspace for community outreach; it will also act as a natural retention area for future flooding events. These mini-ecosystems can potentially mitigate billions of dollars in flood damages while conserving precious habitats for native species.” – Quoted directly from the Katy High School Tiger Prairie Website.
Learn more about this initiative here:
http://www.tigerprairie.org/about.html
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Wildlife Habitat Federation is proud to have played a role in planting six miles of native wildflowers in the median of the Texas Heritage Parkway.
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Wildlife Habitat Federation led the initiative with the West Park Tollway through planting four miles of native grasses in the median. This adds eye appeal to the many travelers that use this tollway daily, in addition to improving the soil quality, air quality and water detention in the median.
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