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About HOUSTON WILDERNESS INC

Location:

1334 BRITTMOORE RD STE 2804, HOUSTON, TX 77043, US

Mission Statement

HOUSTON WILDERNESS works with a broad-based alliance of business, environmental and government interests to protect and promote the 10 diverse ecoregions of the 13+ county area around Houston, Galveston Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico, including coastal prairies, forests, wetlands, and waterways

Description

Houston Wilderness promotes, protects and preserves the 10 ecoregions in multiple counties around Greater Houston through facilitation of large-scale environmental policy initiatives including: 1) the 8-county Gulf-Houston Regional Conservation Plan (RCP), 2) the collaborative Super Trees for Sustainability Initiative that incorporates the 25-mile Houston Ship Channel (HSC) TREES Program, the multi-county Riverine Targeted-Use-of-Buyouts (TUBs) Program, and multiple targeted urban forestry projects in EJ communities around Greater Houston, 3) the Southeast Texas Native Seed Mix Initiative, and 4) the Collaborative Grant-Organizing Program. We work with multiple stakeholders on collaborative environmental policy, funding, education and on-the-ground ecosystem services.