Buffalo Bayou: River of Dreams
Project Overview

The Citizens League for Environmental Action Now and the Endangered Species Media Project are collaborating for the first time with a broad spectrum of experts and scholars in creating a documentary, segmented instructional films, curriculum, archive, and book exploring Buffalo Bayou’s significance for this region from earliest times and visioning to the future. The project components will uniquely elucidate influences from the past and present and explore and share a vision for the future.

Portraying the life that has commenced and flourished along the banks of the Buffalo Bayou and surrounding region and the collaborated master plan for improvement of water quality, green spaces, wetlands and natural habitats may indeed re-characterize and reestablish this as truly a “river of dreams.” The project will explore the significant historical, geographical, sociological and economic impacts of Buffalo bayou. It will portray the heritage and vision the legacy of this tremendously important water way.

 

Historically, Buffalo bayou serves Houston as an indicator habitat which today supports returning wildlife through improved water way care. This was not possible in the recent past. Significant, award winning work to successfully green this urban water way will benefit from the public awareness and support this project will inspire. Key components of the project such as the documentary, book and curriculum along with public interactive events are designed to inform and encourage individual involvement now and in the future for Buffalo Bayou.

 

Public education, awareness and involvement are currently engaged by the ESMP with Buffalo Bayou Canoe clean-ups. Recent clean-up canoe trips included students from Austin High School, The University of St. Thomas and area businesses collaborating to clean the bayou, assess what is removed and better understand the ecosystem.

 

There is much to learn from the vanishing life of the past to understand the present and make wise choices to support future life. The question for students of all ages at the heart of this project asks “What can we learn from vanishing life to protect and preserve human and all life?” Many experts and scholars carefully study and plot the course for a greener and healthier future for future inhabitants of this watershed. The documentary and other components will educate and involve the public and generations to come on how to support and be supported by the bayou eco-region.

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History of Buffalo Bayou
Program Components
Buffalo Bayou- designation as a historic waterway