The goal of the project is taking an overgrown lot and turning it into a water-holding, pristine prairie — one that also adheres to some of the rich history of the Black farmers and settlers who founded places like Clinton Park.
Jaime González, with The Nature Conservancy, teaches Ailey Maxie, 7, how to throw a lasso during a day of prairie planting, Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Clinton Park in Houston.
Clinton Park, now tucked between Loop 610, Buffalo Bayou and Galena Park, was Houston’s first master planned community for Blacks, developed when segregation shut out many Black homeowners from other neighborhoods. “It will encourage marginalized communities that are often excluded to become more comfortable in the outdoors,” said Nancy Brown, public outreach specialist at United States Fish & Wildlife Service, of the Witness Series. “Our hope is that it will inspire other events creating a larger audience and engaging more families and young people of color in nature.”
Irvin, 51, said although she and Ashley are not Clinton Park residents, they benefit from seeing it succeed and successfully add a flooding project.A former school principal and artist, Rangel said often Black roles in environmental responsibility are overlooked. It was Black farmhands and cowboys, for example, who cleared Clinton Park and maintained rich bayou grasslands around the fields of fruits and vegetables they cultivated.
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