SAVE BUFFALO BAYOU

Save Buffalo Bayou advocates for Buffalo Bayou, its many creeks and streams, for nature and modern flood management. The 18,000-year-old river is our main waterway flowing through Houston, much of it relatively natural. Most of what we do is journalism. We write about how streams work and why nature-based flood management works best, costs less, and is better for us and our world. From 2014 through 2017 our efforts centered on a misguided project to 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 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.