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Greenwood Forest is an unincorporated area in Harris County, Texas, United States. It is within the Champions region of area 649 acres (263 ha). According to Louis B. Parks of the Houston Chronicle , the commuting distance to Downtown Houston in 2004 was 20 minutes.
The entire Sam Houston National Forest is designated as a wildlife management area through a cooperative agreement between Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the U.S. Forest Service. This special designation provides benefits to those who use the Sam Houston National Forest, including hunters, and to the wildlife that live or forage there.
Land in what is now Inwood Forest was originally Native American hunting grounds. In the 1860s German American farmers settled along the White Oak Bayou. For a 100-year period until 1963, the Fuchs family owned the land that would become Inwood Forest and surrounding subdivisions; during that year a real estate developer bought the land.
Bay Forest Wildlife Preserve - a 10.3 acres (42,000 m 2) habitat of indigenous flora and fauna unique to Gulf Coast riparian reserves that includes a 0.5 mile (800 m) crushed granite trail for exploring or exercising. Located in the southeast corner of the neighborhood adjacent to Horsepen Bayou, it provides residents with a quiet retreat from ...
Ponderosa Forest is a master-planned community developed during the late 1960s and 1970s in multiple phases by the Kickerillo Companies in Harris County, Texas, within the northern limits of the City of Houston, Texas. Kickerillo Companies is one of Houston's largest homebuilding and land development companies.
Jeff Stant is executive director of the Indiana Forest Alliance. This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Column: Forest Service's Houston South plan is inappropriate for Hoosier Show ...
Entrance sign to Mojave National Preserve. There are 21 protected areas of the United States designated as national preserves.They were established by an act of Congress to protect areas that have resources often associated with national parks but where certain natural resource-extractive activities such as hunting and mining may be permitted, provided their natural values are preserved.
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-profit, 2,000 acres Kleb ...