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Central Texas: website: Houston Arboretum and Nature Center: Houston: Harris: Texas Coastal Bend: 155 acres with over 5 miles of trails Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center: Humble: Harris: Texas Coastal Bend: website, operated by the County, 312 acres John Bunker Sands Wetland Center: Combine: Dallas County: North Texas: website, Private non ...
The Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) nature sanctuary along Rummel Creek, located in Houston, Texas, in the United States. [1] Named after Edith Lotz Moore, who lived on the land with her husband for 43 years, the sanctuary includes a restored log cabin [2] for hosting educational programs and houses administrative offices for the Houston Audubon Society.
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State: Texas: Metro Area: Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land ... ZIP code: 77058, 77059, 77062, 77258, 77505, 77507, 77565, 77573, 77586, 77598 ... and Texas City ...
Armand Bayou Nature Center is an urban preserve located in Pasadena and southeast Houston between the Johnson Space Center and the Bayport Industrial District. The 2,500-acre (10 km 2 ) nature center is the largest urban wilderness preserve in the United States .
George Bush Park is a county park in Houston, Texas, United States, located on the far west side of the city.Situated entirely within Barker Reservoir, a large flood control structure, the park covers 7,800 acres (32 km 2), most of which is undeveloped forest used for the storage of floodwater. [2]
The Texas City Prairie Preserve is a 2,300-acre (9.3 km 2) nature preserve located on the shores of Moses Lake and Galveston Bay in Texas City, Texas in the United States, near Houston. The preserve was created in 1995 by the Nature Conservancy thanks to a $2.2 million donation of land by ExxonMobil .
In 1925 gas was discovered in the area. As resources were discovered, banks and gambling houses opened and the Handbook of Texas stated that Blue Ridge became a "boomtown". [1] In 1936 the 4,348-acre (1,760 ha) Blue Ridge State Prison Farm incorporated the area, and most Blue Ridge residents were staff members at the facility. [1]