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HOUSTON WILDERNESS is a broad-based alliance of business, environmental and government interests that acts in concert to protect, preserve and promote the unique biodiversity of the regions precious remaining ecological capital from
HOUSTON WILDERNESS is a broad-based alliance of business, environmental and government interests that acts in concert to protect, preserve and promote the unique biodiversity of the region’s precious remaining ecological capital from bottomland hardwoods and prairie grasslands to pine forests and wetlands.
Land-based
Water-based
Bay/Estuaries
– Collaborative Access Program (CAP) – Collaborative Grant-organizing Program
– Sam Houston Greenbelt Network – Ecosystem Services Assessment in Greater Houston Area
– Houston Wilderness Website: houstonwilderness.org/gulf-restoration-funds/ – Get Outdoors Houston! Website and Ecotourism – Wilderness Passport / Ecotourism Passport
Houston Wilderness’ CGO Program brings multiple stakeholders in the region together to discuss opportunities for packaging multiple projects into one large funding request for federal and state granting
HW administers the submission of the grant with the targeted partners.
Similar or related regional projects help to increase the chances of receiving funding by leveraging costs and providing a bigger regional impact.
received positive feedback from multiple federal & state grantors. We have received federal funding for the regional Houston Urban Refuge Initiative and have a large regional grant pending with TCEQ for four Cypress Creek Ecosystem Services Studies.
Existing Ecological Areas in 8-County Region around Houston