You are Invited to the First Annual GPRC Fundraiser Evening

New Living and Great Plains Restoration Council invite you to the 1st Annual GPRC Fundraiser Event benefitting the Restoration Not Incarceration™ program of Great Plains Restoration Council. Feel free to bring a friend! February 29, 2012.

Fort Worth Prairie Park Update

The North Face has awarded a $2500 grant to GPRC to help our youth explore the rare Fort Worth Prairie.

Esteban Park, Houston Update

Esteban Park, new urban Houston, Texas Coastal Prairie Park  – Begun Aug. 2010, first demonstration coastal prairie restoration park, Donated by Pastors Rudy and Juanita Rasmus of St. John’s Downtown. Set in urban south Houston. First phase of restoration nearly complete. Trails going in now. A pair of grassland nesting birds was discovered on the back prairie site in April 2011.  

Southern Plains Preserve Update

Details coming soon…  

Saltwater Country Update

Saltwater Country, Coastal Prairie Galveston Bay estuary restoration  – MOU signed with US Army Corps of Engineers to restore 20,000 acre grassland estuary restoration site on the mouth of the Trinity River as it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.  

Oglala Prairie Preserve Update

Oglala Prairie Preserve  - 4,600 acre acquisition of high-quality mixed -grass prairie habitat for bison, prairie dogs and black-footed ferrets directly adjacent to (6.5 miles frontage) the North Unit of Badlands National Park. Currently In need of being acquired by National Park Service, which has existing funds for acquisition. Boundary expansion of the Oglala Prairie Preserve is written into the Management Plans of Badlands National Park. Partnership with Wildlands Restoration Corporation.