{"id":420,"date":"2014-06-25T18:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T23:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=420"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:25:52","slug":"gloves-coming-off-the-bpa-has-lost-its-way-on-buffalo-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Gloves Coming Off: The BPA Has Lost Its Way on Buffalo Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 25, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our response in the <em>Memorial Examiner<\/em> to Robert Rayburn, president of the Bayou Preservation Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SC-Critter-den.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-425 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SC-Critter-den-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Critter den and tracks in a sandy bank of Buffalo Bayou to be bulldozed by Harris County.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over time, the mission and purpose of citizens&#8217; organizations can erode and change course. Tragically, this is the case with the Bayou Preservation Association, founded in 1966 &#8220;to protect the natural beauty&#8221; of Buffalo Bayou against the bulldozers of the Harris County Flood Control District.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uh.edu\/collection\/p15195coll38\/item\/340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a 1984 KUHT documentary<\/a>, BPA founding member Terry Hershey warned that we must always be vigilant because the HCFCD would always try to find a way to strip and channelize our southern, slow-moving bayou and turn it into a drainage ditch. How shocking that the BPA itself is now promoting a Harris County project to bulldoze nearly 1.5 miles of our last remaining wild bayou in the middle of Houston in order to do just that.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhoustonnews.com\/memorial\/opinion\/destroying-buffalo-bayou-in-order-to-restore-it\/article_fecc8b39-5c88-5756-8dd0-2c9f38cc0e8d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the editorial in the Examiner.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 25, 2014 Our response in the Memorial Examiner to Robert Rayburn, president of the Bayou Preservation Association Over time, the mission and purpose of citizens&#8217; organizations can erode and change course. Tragically, this is the case with the Bayou Preservation Association, founded in 1966 &#8220;to protect the natural beauty&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,41,19,44,3,31,47,35,16,40,46,43,42,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banks-2","category-bulldoze-2","category-cliffs","category-habitat","category-hcfcd","category-maps","category-media","category-natural","category-permit","category-riparian-2","category-rocks","category-rosgen","category-sandstone","category-springs","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}