Spring Creek Greenway Video Released

Montgomery County just released a 14-minute video covering the Spring Creek Greenway project. Shot live on Spring Creek at Montgomery County Preserve, Jesse Jones Park, and other spots around the region, the video covers the project's history, the importance of preserving riparian forests in a rapidly urbanizing area, and discusses the Greenway's goals of education, restoration, preservation and recreation. The footage includes scenes shot from a Cessna Skyhawk flying over the region, as well as on the ground and on the river.

Starring in the film are some of the region's diverse wildlife, plant and tree species found along Spring Creek, such as a great blue heron, great white egret, red slider, Gulf Coast toad, a young spotted white-tailed deer fawn, southern magnolia, baldcypress, and wild tomato. The video also includes interviews with Robert Collins, Montgomery County Precinct 3 Special Counsel, and Dennis Johnston, now Harris County Precinct 4's Park Director and long-time Director of Jones Park.

The Spring Creek Greenway will connect and protect up to 12,000 acres of forest, on both sides of the creek, in order to preserve, protect, restore, and educate. The project will preserve an ecological gem, a biologically diverse ecosystem that provides important habitat for many wildlife species, and aims to create an ecotourism mecca and a peaceful respite from busy urban lives for those from Houston or even nationwide.

Made possible by a Texas Forest Service Urban Forestry Partnership Grant, the website was created along with a video and informational brochure. The video was produced and screenwritten by Wendee Holtcamp of LOGOS Communications, LLC, and directed and filmed by Ray Jenkins of DGW Productions, Inc. both of Humble, Texas, and was released in October, 2006.

Holtcamp, M.S. Wildlife Ecology, brings over 10 years of writing, photographic and design experience to the table, with articles published in National Wildlife, Sierra, and Audubon magazines, and Discovery Channel Online, among others. She regularly contributes to Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine and recently won a Gold first-place IRMA (International Regional Magazine Association) Award for the Best Nature Feature for her April 2005 TPW Magazine article on the plight of Texas rivers' freshwater mussels Save the Monkeyface. She also runs LOGOS Communications, LLC which does webdesign, video production and graphics work.

Jenkins, proprietor of DGW - Doing Good Works, Inc., has two years of video production training from Sam Houston State University in the Radio-Television-Film curriculum, coupled with many hours of experience in pre-production, production, and post-production. He works both behind the camera and in video production and editing. His work includes short films, documentaries, and training videos, including work for Christ the King Lutheran Church, T&T Engineering, and Lighthouse Productions.

To arrange a viewing of the full-length video, contact Robert Collins, Montgomery County Precinct 3, at info@springcreekgreenway.org or call (281) 367-3977.

Wendee Holtcamp can be reached at bohemian@wendeeholtcamp.com or (281) 798-8417. Visit her website at http://www.wendeeholtcamp.com.

Ray Jenkins with DGW, Inc. can be reached at dgwinc@lycos.com, (713) 304-2793 or visit his website at http://www.dgwinc.net.