{"id":521,"date":"2014-07-26T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=521"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:28:37","slug":"seeing-what-will-be-destroyed-our-article-in-the-houston-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Seeing What Will be Destroyed: Our Article in the Houston Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 26, 2014<\/p>\n

The Bayou Banks We Could Lose<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once again, a flood-control project threatens Buffalo Bayou<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By Susan Chadwick for the Houston Chronicle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

July 25, 2014 | Updated: July 25, 2014 3:21pm<\/p>\n

We have pulled the canoe up to a clean, white sandy beach on Buffalo Bayou in the middle of the city. It’s still early morning, and all along our slow paddle from the bridge at Woodway great white egrets and a great blue heron fly ahead of us, leading us to our destination: the prehistoric cliffs and forested banks that could soon be obliterated by the Harris County Flood Control District.<\/p>\n

It’s a bizarre project, all the more incomprehensible in that the project is primarily promoted by the influential Bayou Preservation Association (BPA), founded in the 1960s to prevent the flood-control district from bulldozing the natural beauty of Buffalo Bayou.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article in the online edition of the Houston Chronicle.<\/em><\/a> Note: This article also appeared in the print edition of the Chronicle <\/em>on Sunday, August 3, 2014, Page G4.<\/p>\n

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Blue heron tracks in the mud on Buffalo Bayou. Photo by Jim Olive<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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