State of Wilderness

Category: Urban Wilderness Areas

  • Houston Arboretum Hike

    Sunday morning, we joined some geocaching friends at the Houston Arboretum for a little hike and social opportunity.  I thought maybe we would see some birds and take some pictures, but we did little of those things.  I saw a hawk which I actually think was a Broad-winged Hawk in retrospect.  There was a little…

  • Prairie Parkway

    South of the Indian Grass Prairie preserve section of the Katy Prairie Conservancy land, a steady stream of Northern Harriers fly northward, forty eight in total counted by birders within about an hour.  Like the jets that were named after them, these birds now seem symbolic of war – the current war between development and…

  • Spring Creek Greenway: Peckingpaugh Preserve

    Yesterday, we were out checking out some places we plan on utilizing to prepare for this year’s Texas Challenge, and we decided on a whim to stop on at the new Nature Center off Riley Fuzzel Road in Spring.  This Center is part of the Spring Creek Greenway system, a project managed by the Bayou…

  • George Bush Park Hikes: Series #2

    On a crisp winter morning, I met up with a friend from geocaching to head out to George Bush Park.  We were specifically after a series of caches off the Noble Road, an old farm road from the turn of the century that was later converted to a three mile stretch of trail.  This trail runs from…