Nature is the Best Engineer
Save Buffalo Bayou advocates for Buffalo Bayou, for creeks and streams, forests and wetlands, for nature and the natural landscape, and for modern flood management. The 18,000-year-old mother bayou is our main waterway flowing through the center of Houston, one of our few streams remaining relatively natural. We investigate, we watch and listen, we educate the public about how streams work and why nature-based flood management works best, costs less, and is better for us and our world. We expose destructive, outdated practices that waste public money and lead to costly and continuous maintenance. We write about bats, beavers, alligators, and snakes. From 2014 through 2017 our efforts centered on a misguided project to strip, dredge, and reroute a forested public stretch of the bayou. Since Harvey in August 2017, our broader focus is the most effective policy and practice to reduce our region’s flood threats. We believe in managing flooding in place, in stopping stormwaters before they flood our streams. Slow it down, spread it out, and soak it in. It’s what the rest of the world is doing. We are a 501c3 nonprofit environmental organization with a very modest budget. Donations are tax-deductible. Visit our Donate page on our website: http://www.savebuffalobayou.org/?page_id=508
