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...IS FOR WILDLIFE

Houston is teeming with wildlife. You would think as the city booms and grows that they would flee,
but they don’t. On any given day we share our sidewalks with squirrels, lizards, rabbits, bats and
more. Currently the Memorial Villages are dealing with an influx of coyotes. To some this is a hassle;
we think it’s pretty rad to live in such a cosmopolitan city and still have the chance to see a prehistoric mammal like the nine-banded armadillo. The US Fish and Wildlife (USFW) and the Greater East
End Management District are partnering to create the Lockwood Nature Garden Preserve where
monarch butterflies (the state insect) stopping to feed on milkweed plants in their migration to and
from Mexico will visit. The micro preserve will be a food depot for birds, moths, bats, hummingbirds,
bees, frogs, lizards, blue birds, cardinals, vireos, cedar waxwings and chickadees. The preserve will
be on the corner of Harrisburg Street and Lockwood near the Metro light rail stop.
Photography by Gabriella Nissen

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