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MEMBER TO MEMBER
Restoring Native Habitat, Helping
to Mitigate Flooding in Houston
By Steve Wright

T

he Houston Parks and Recreation Department has begun a
project to restore native flora to riparian areas - along rivers
or bayous - at 70 parks in the city. This project, though worthwhile on its own terms, will also substantially improve the quality of life for everyone in Greater Houston by helping to mitigate the risk
and impact of future floods.
tal parks, 70 contained land that
ran along flowing water: bayous,
creeks, streams or ditches. At
these 70 parks, the department's
Natural Resources Management
Program team will clear the riparian areas of invasive plants, such
as the Chinese tallow, that were
brought from elsewhere and plant

PHOTOS COURTESY: HOUSTON PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT

To be sure, this riparian-restoration process will be no small
undertaking. To determine which
Houston parks were suitable for
this sort of habitat revitalization,
department staff inspected aerial
imagery of every park under the
stewardship of the city of Houston and found that, of the 370 to-

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native flora instead.
Some parks have riparian habitats that already contain native
plants and just need to be supplemented, while others lack any habitat at all along their bodies of water and will need to have it restored
from scratch. Altogether, the department predicts it will plant more
than 200,000 trees on 1,000 acres
of parkland as part of this riparian-habitat restoration project. The
A cleared section (foreground) of Houston's Milby Park where invasive plants
are being replaced with native trees.



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