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Houston Food Bank volunteer Ali Fawaz sorts while packing a box of snacks. The food bank saw lines get longer in November after a decrease in demand in late summer.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
The year might be ending, but there s still a lot of need in the Houston area as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues.
Several organizations in the Houston area have stepped up to help families struggling during this time. And just because the year is over doesn t mean they re done providing aid.
If you have the ability, here are a few organizations in the Houston area helping provide COVID-19 relief that could benefit from any donations.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 12/21/2020 6:56:34 PM
The top of Pack Monadnock was unusually quiet during the fall migration period from Sept. 1 to Nov. 20 due to COVID-19, but the skies above tell a different story.
During this year’s annual Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory, a collaboration between the Harris Center for Conservation Education and NH Audubon, a total of 12,032 migrating hawks were counted above the flight corridor that has collected important data over the last 16 years that helps paint a picture of the migration patterns from the region.
The overall number is slightly above the average obtained from the previous 15 years of the project, but well short of the all-time high of 19,845 observed in 2015.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 12/21/2020 6:55:17 PM
Permanently preserving a parcel of land is an exciting and celebration-worthy event, and commonplace for Monadnock region nonprofits and municipal conservation commissions. However, the Hancock Conservation Commission has realized they’re at a tipping point after two decades of successful land acquisition: there’s an increasingly urgent need for maintenance on town properties.
“When it comes to management, that sometimes gets overlooked,” Chair Phil Brown said. “We have owned some properties for decades, now what do we do?”
Without any maintenance, a forested property can grow beyond tree species’ optimal harvest age, and “become subject to the forces of nature, for better and worse,” he said. Boardwalks and bridges on some town hiking trails are starting to fall into disrepair, as well as the trails themselves, he said.
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Despite challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory was able to complete its annual tracking project in 2020 and reported strong numbers for a few different species.
During the tracking period, which runs Sept. 1 through Nov. 20, participants counted nearly 12,000 birds migrating south from New Hampshire, according to the final tally on the Harris Center for Conservation Education s website. The Hancock-based nonprofit organizes the count as part of a collaboration with N.H. Audubon and N.H. State Parks.Â
Though public participation in the process was a bit different than in a typical year, the team of volunteers, which is headed up by a raptor biologist, counted 15 different raptor species, and some in record numbers. Raptor refers to any bird of prey, defined as a bird that pursues other animals for food, including eagles, falcons and hawks.Â