Trees

Title: Trees for Houston Arbor Day Awards
Location: Houston Center For Photography
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Description: Trees For Houston is a non-profit organization dedicated to planting, protecting and promoting trees. The Arbor Day Awards honor individuals, corporations and organizations who have made exceptional contributions within the last year that have made Houston a greeer city. We will recognize the winners at our tenth annual Arbor Day Awards ceremony on Wednesday, January 27 at the Houston Center for Photography. Visit http://www.treesforhouston.org/51.html for more information.
Start Time: 17:30
Date: 2010-01-27
End Time: 19:30

Title: Urban Harvest: Hands-On Fruit Tree Series Class 4 of 4
Location: TBA
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Description: Grapes, Muscadines & Persimmons. It is highly recommended that prior to this class you take the Care of Fruit Trees class which is part of Backyard Orchard Package.
This class is part of the Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Package of four classes that will provide hands-on demonstration of successful pruning techniques.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-02-05
End Time: 18:00

Title: Urban Harvest: Hands-On Fruit Tree Series Class 3 of 4
Location: TBA
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Description: Pomegranates, Pears & Citrus. It is highly recommended that prior to this class you take the Care of Fruit Trees class which is part of Backyard Orchard Package.
This class is part of the Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Package of four classes that will provide hands-on demonstration of successful pruning techniques.

Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-01-29
End Time: 18:00

Title: Urban Harvest: Hands-On Fruit Tree Series Class 2 of 4
Location: TBA
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Description: Peaches & Figs. It is highly recommended that prior to this class you take the Care of Fruit Trees class which is part of Backyard Orchard Package.
This class is part of the Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Package of four classes that will provide hands-on demonstration of successful pruning techniques.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-01-22
End Time: 18:00

Title: Urban Harvest: Hands-On Fruit Tree Series Class 1 of 4
Location: TBA
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Description: Apples & Blackberries. It is highly recommended that prior to this class you take the Care of Fruit Trees class which is part of Backyard Orchard Package.
This class is part of the Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Package of four classes that will provide hands-on demonstration of successful pruning techniques.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-01-15
End Time: 18:00

Title: 7th Annual Buffalo Planting on the Parkway
Location: Buffalo Bend Nature Park
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Description: The Bayou Buddies and Trees for Houston Redbuds will be planting native trees on the Parkway. There is a suggested donation of $10 for nonmembers.
For more information about the 7th Annual Planting on the Parkway, email jgaines@buffalobayou.org
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-01-09
End Time: 15:00

By Ella Tyler

In honor of Arbor Day Houston, the Houston Parks and Recreation Department and Trees for Houston are organizing a planting of 12,500 trees on the Clay Road esplanades between Gessner and Blalock. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

My favorite trade shows are the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association’s shows. The convention center in Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio, depending on the year, overflows with beautiful displays of big trees, bedding plants, fountains, and garden furnishings and décor. Flowers or greenery also decorate the booths that exhibit tools, fertilizers, and services. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

Author Richard Louv, a futurist and journalist who writes about family, nature, and community, coined the term “Nature Deficit Disorder” to explain a variety of ills that affect today’s youth – obesity, attention disorders, and depression. (more…)

BY Ella Tyler

I drove through part of the University of Texas campus a few weeks ago and was reminded of my introduction to environmental activism. It was 1969, and many of my friends were protesting the expansion of Memorial Stadium and the impending destruction of trees along Waller Creek. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

During the last Ice Age, eastern hardwood forests, Gulf coastal plains, and Midwestern prairies all came together in East Texas in an area known to early settlers as the Big Thicket. (more…)

Editorial by Ted Lee Eubanks, President
Fermata Inc.

The forests and forest industry of East Texas are undergoing radical change. All of the major timber companies (like the paper companies in Maine) are divesting themselves of forest lands they have owned and managed for decades. (more…)

By Ella Tyler

Poet as diverse as Robert Frost and Ogden Nash, Pablo Neruda and Shel Silverstein, have all written poems about trees, but Joyce Kilmer’s heartfelt rhyme is familiar to every schoolchild: “Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.” (more…)

By Ella Tyler

The morning of Saturday, Jan 27, more than 2,000 people will assemble along Will Clayton Parkway near Bush Intercontinental Airport to engage in two of the Houston community’s favorite activities – volunteering and planting trees. (more…)

(affiliated with Piney Woods Wildlife Society, Inc.)

Purpose: Outstanding nature photography is choreographed to a live musical performance and narration. These concerts deal with appreciation and conservation of the natural world – as conceived by a concert pianist/naturalist.

2514 Bycreek
Houston, Texas 77068
(281) 444-0343
hugahabi@swbell.net (more…)

4226 Manorfield Drive
Seabrook, Texas 77586
(281) 474-5732
cuthbert@ev1.net

Margaret Frick, Speaker

Programs: Presentations are a dynamic mix of slides, video, live animals, and hands-on activities. Programs are available for groups of all ages. (more…)

Purpose: To provide environmental education and to preserve the ecosystems with which Armand Bayou Nature Center has been entrusted.

8500 Bay Area Blvd.
P.O. Box 58828
Houston, Texas 77258
(281) 474-2551/fax: (281) 474-2552
abnc@abnc.org

www.abnc.org

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