Houston Audubon contributes to a Greener Houston through our natural science education, land conservation, habitat restoration, and environmental advocacy. For over 20 of its 40 years, Houston Audubon has provided unique environmental education programs throughout Houston and the surrounding areas. Our youth programs specifically target the needs of inner-city children, more than half of whom belong to minority populations. Our adult programs provide instruction across a variety of topics from bird identification techniques, to the effects of climate change, to the importance of native habitat. Our conservation efforts include: Coastal Pocket Prairie Restoration (throughout Houston), Saums Road Prairie Plant Rescue (Katy Prairie), Austin's Woods Conservation Plan in the Columbia Bottomlands, Pine Brook Wetlands Restoration (near Clear Lake), Whooping Crane Habitat Protection Project (Aransas). Our efforts on behalf of conservation and avian interests include several important issues such as: wind farm siting guidelines for Texas, Trans-Texas Corridor, Neches River National Wildlife Refuge, and the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act. We continue to collaborate with many other state organizations to restore funding to Texas State Parks, and to advance Texas Teaming with Wildlife, an initiative to bring federal dollars to Texas for conservation.