{"id":924,"date":"2014-09-18T00:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T05:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=924"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:38:30","slug":"learning-how-rivers-work-and-why-bulldozing-wild-buffalo-bayou-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Learning How Rivers Work and Why Bulldozing Wild Buffalo Bayou Won’t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 18, 2014<\/p>\n

If more city people understood how rivers work, they would know why our wild Buffalo Bayou should be left alone in and around Memorial Park and why the project to bulldoze it is pointless, wrong, and won’t work.<\/p>\n

Interested in learning about the living process of a stream and the importance of riparian zones? Want to find out more about proper land use and management to protect riverfront property against erosion?<\/p>\n

Save Buffalo Bayou is developing an educational program about urban riparian areas. But the basic principles are the same for streams in the city and in the country. For now you can learn from an expert at Texas A&M.<\/p>\n

The Texas Riparian Association<\/a> is holding a Riparian and Stream Ecosystem Workshop on September 24, 2014, from 8 am to 4 pm at Whites Park Community Center, 219 White Memorial Park Road in Hankamer near Anahuac, about an hour east of Houston.<\/p>\n

Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Riparian forest on Buffalo Bayou. Photo by Jim Olive.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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