Fort Worth Prairie Park Update

The North Face has awarded a $2500 grant to GPRC to help children and families explore the rare Fort Worth Prairie. Plains Youth InterACTION engages our most disadvantaged children in discovering the values of leadership and personal responsibility for their own health, their life’s direction and their environment. They “heal themselves through healing the Earth (the prairie).” GPRC was selected from hundreds of applications because of our dedication to serving our youth and protecting our prairie earth.  In the first of two grant cycles in 2011, The North Face awarded $125,000 Explore Fund grants to 52 projects helping more than 30,000 kids to connect to nature.

May 1, 2011

Fort Worth Prairie Park –  235 acre riparian corridor acquired and protected in December 2010. Now working with Dixon Water Foundation and Native Prairies Association in permanently protecting this rare 2,000 acre Fort Worth Prairie tallgrass preserve on the back door of 5 million people.