Thank you Bayou Preservation Association for the 2020 Terry Hershey Bayou Stewardship Award! We are so grateful for being recognized for this award for our award in environmental activism.
We were also interviewed on KHOU 11 along with Dr. Sarah Bernhardt, CEO of the Bayou Preservation Association. You can view that here.
This award is named after Terry Hershey, credited with starting the environmental movement in Houston fighting the Buffalo Bayou Project in Houston. In 1966, she observed an area of Buffalo Bayou ravaged by falling trees and bulldozed undergrowth. She discovered that Harris County was rerouting Buffalo Bayou without notifying the public, an act that would decimate the existing ecosystem. Terry joined the Buffalo Bayou Preservation association and became one of it’s most visible activists, fighting for Houston’s nature throughout her life by lobbying city, state, and country officials, grassroots organizing, and bringing the community to Houston’s bayous.
Without Terry Hershey, the bayous we love and protect would not be the same. We are honored to receive this award, and will strive to uphold Terry Hershey’s legacy in our work.
