Bayou Land Conservancy

Bayou Land Conservancy is a community-sponsored land preservation organization working with willing landowners to permanently protect land in the greater Houston region. We preserve river and bayou corridors, other properties with significant wildlife habitat value and places where family recreation can occur in harmony with nature. Our "No Child Left Inside" education program connects tomorrow's conservation leaders with nature today. Bayou Land Conservancy is proud to have conserved over 8,600 acres in the greater Houston region.

Bayou Land Conservancy was formed in 1996 as an offshoot of the Bayou Preservation Association, a Houston group dedicated to protecting the bayou systems of Houston. To better protect the bayous, and the water quality that flows into them, Bayou Lands (yes, plural) Conservancy was born to directly protect the floodplain green spaces surrounding these bayous. For a brief time, the organization was known as S.E. Texas Conservancy, and then 12 years ago, changed the name to Legacy Land Trust.

In 2010, the organization decided to reclaim its original name (deleting the “s” in Lands) and reverted to “Bayou Land Conservancy” on November 1, 2010.  The “new-old” name correctly denotes the work we’ve been doing for close to 15 years – keeping the land-water connection as our primary motivator for lands we protect, with all conservation easement holdings containing tributaries running adjacent and/our through the lands we help public and private landowners protect.

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