{"id":10172,"date":"2021-08-14T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2021-08-14T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:31:18","slug":"trashy-ditch-or-urban-oasis-buffalo-bayou-paddle-offers-new-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=10172","title":{"rendered":"Trashy Ditch or Urban Oasis? Buffalo Bayou Paddle Offers New Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Emily Foxhall, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Trashy-ditch-or-urban-oasis-Buffalo-Bayou-paddle-16386429.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/em>, Aug. 14, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spotted sandpiper flies across the water. A great egret stands on the river\u2019s edge. Sycamore trees offer shade. According to one member of that day\u2019s paddling group, there are three species of gar, three species of catfish and a whole host of birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo many people don\u2019t even know about it,\u201d said Steve Green, a former river guide who left his sailboat in Clear Lake to paddle along. \u201cThose that do really enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Trashy-ditch-or-urban-oasis-Buffalo-Bayou-paddle-16386429.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\">Read this lovely report in the <em>Houston Chronicle<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BB-BB-float-chron-Jon-Shapley-8.8.21-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BB-BB-float-chron-Jon-Shapley-8.8.21-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BB-BB-float-chron-Jon-Shapley-8.8.21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BB-BB-float-chron-Jon-Shapley-8.8.21-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BB-BB-float-chron-Jon-Shapley-8.8.21-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BB-BB-float-chron-Jon-Shapley-8.8.21-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Bruce Bodson paddles his kayak down Buffalo Bayou on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. Photo by Jon Shapley, <em>Houston Chronicle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Foxhall, Houston Chronicle, Aug. 14, 2021 \u2026 A spotted sandpiper flies across the water. A great egret stands on the river\u2019s edge. Sycamore trees offer shade. According to one member of that day\u2019s paddling group, there are three species of gar, three species of catfish and a whole&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}