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WILLOW WATERHOLE GREENSPACE CONSERVANCY

What Is It?: This 290-acre greenway offers Houstonians recreational opportunities and helps control flooding, and includes ponds, native plants, walking trails and gazebos, and a variety of wildlife.

 

Help Needed: Help with planting; cleaning and maintaining the landscape; refurbishing, replacing, or adding signs or other features; or volunteering at the annual MusicFEST.

 

Minimum Age to Volunteer: None

Help Needed

 

HELP IMPROVE THE LANDSCAPE

Depending on the group and time of year, activities could include mulching; trimming trees and bushes; removing invasive plants; planting trees, iris, prairie plants, or other vegetation; picking up litter; and/or other conservation activities.

HELP AT THE ANNUAL WILLOW WATERHOLE MUSICFEST

Help at this annual 2-day spring event that includes 20 hours of free diverse music, an artist village with more than 40 participating artists, food trucks, and performers such as aerialists and stilt-walkers. Volunteer positions include greeters, setup, runners, parking guides, trash pick up, water delivery to musicians/artists, information booth, and more.  The 2020 festival will take place on October 24-25.

 

 

Time Commitment:

Flexible.  Check the calendar for conservation workdays, or contact the Conservancy to start your own project.

Suitable for Groups of Volunteers?

Yes

Training Needed:

None

Contact:
Email [email protected], or submit the contact form.
Website:
http://www.willowwaterhole.org/

2017 Willow Waterhole MusicFEST (2017) (2 minutes)

Brays Oaks Management District Carp-a-thon 2017 at Willow Waterhole by eVision 1 Productions (2017) (1 minute 55 seconds)

Examples of past Scout projects

Installed four birdhouses; installed eight 1/4 mile markers on Westbury Lake Trail; North Clematis Circle landscaping; South Clematis Circle landscaping; painted three kiosks; made new frames with new plexiglas on three kiosks; planted trees at Levitt Lake; moved tree ID markers and cleaned brush from Bayou Trail; built a chimney swift habitat; built a kiosk around the chimney swift habitat; built a crushed granite trail at Rafferty Memorial; built a footbridge at South Clematis Circle; installed two bat houses in Rafferty Wetlands; installed two new WW signs at Schwartz Gazebo, moving trash receptacle; restored three WWG signs at Triangle Lake; installed four new tree ID signs in Rafferty Wetlands; removed dead trees, planted new trees, restored wood sign at main entrance, and upgraded bulletins about chimney swifts.

Location:

5300 Dryad, Houston, TX 77035

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  • I am an 8th grade student at Lanier Middle School interested in helping your organization by completing a service project. I have participated in several cross country meets at your location. I would love to speak with you about any needs you have and ways I may be able to help. I look forward to hearing from you.

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