Terry Hershey, Community, and Action

By Houston History Magazine on July 12, 2013 in Energy and Environment, Houstonians, Preservation

By Teresa Tomkins-Walsh

More than forty years ago, Terry Tarlton Hershey became the most visible representative of environmental action in Houston as she fought to preserve the natural beauty of Buffalo Bayou west of Shepherd Drive. She continues as a magna mater in the environmental community, but her campaign to save Buffalo Bayou drew in part from a coterie of Houstonians committed to wilderness recreation and urban beautification, organized in the wake of the First World War.

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