The grand opening of the Sam Houston Park project was held on April 30, 1999.

What is the City Center Conservation Project?

It is a partnership project to create native wildlife habitat in the middle of downtown Houston.

Why Sam Houston Park?

Sam Houston Park was the logical choice because The Heritage Society has preserved several old homes from Houston's past. These old homes represent our cultural history. To recapture our natural history, native wildlife habitat flowerbeds and a wetland garden were created.

The original Texas explorers found the landscape here beautiful enough to want to settle here. We hope that YOU, as today's explorers, will be able to see some of the beauty that first attracted Houston's ancestors.

Why native landscapes?

The partners of this project hope this inspires backyard native habitats across the city. If we would utilize this native plant concept in our own backyards, we would be creating our own habitats and thus helping to solve some our special problems such as endangered species, both plant and animal. Each of us would also be using less fertilizer, less pesticides and less water as well as saving time due to less maintenance required.

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