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Exploration Green sta host youth groups on topics covering maintenance and utilization of the nature park.
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Exploration Green completed construction in fall 2023 and will plant its remaining native trees by spring 2026.
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Exploration Green Conservancy looks toward future What started out as a golf course in the middle of the Oakbrook subdivision in Clear Lake has been transformed over the past decade into Exploration Green Conservancy, a multi-purpose nature park. By the numbers The Clear Lake City Water Authority purchased Why it matters Exploration Green is changing the demographics of the historic neighborhood, Sharp said. Rich Sommer, vice chairman for the conser- vancy and a Texas Master Naturalist, often hosts
Conservancy board members said they will focus on community programming over the next ten years.
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nature-themed events for youth in the area. “[Exploration Green] provides a place where [children and adults] can volunteer, get their hands dirty, plant a tree, plant a shrub,” he said. What’s coming next? The conservancy’s long term vision includes an educational building with classrooms, a commu- nity pavilion and a music venue to focus more on the community in the next ten years, said Sharp.
the land for Exploration Green in 2011 and a groundbreaking ceremony was held in 2014, Exploration Green Conservancy chairman David Sharp said. The group was founded by the water authority to enhance and protect the park, he said. In total, the park’s amenities once completed in the coming years will include 200 acres, 4,000 trees, 60,000 wetland plants and 215 bird species.
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