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
Houston and the entire Texas Gulf Coast used to be a Garden of Eden of incredibly beautiful, wild coastal prairie. Today America has only 1% left of her native coastal prairie along the Gulf of Mexico. Join us in the race against extinction as people save their own lives and health at the same time! 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
Houston and the entire Texas Gulf Coast used to be a Garden of Eden of incredibly beautiful, wild coastal prairie. Today America has only 1% left of her native coastal prairie along the Gulf of Mexico. Join us in the race against extinction as people save their own lives and health at the same time! 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. Houston Wilderness Overview Map Click image for larger view • Download the Hi-resolution PDF (27MB) Texas Chenier Plain Complex &…
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.
