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Native Plants and Prairies Day
Native Plants and Prairies Day on May 6, is a fun free event for families to celebrate our Blackland prairies here in North Texas. Read more »
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Welcome to the New Site!
Howdy and welcome to the new Blackland Prairie Chapter blog! We’ve moved under the NPAT State umbrella to serve you better. Hope you’ll visit often and stay awhile!
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Blackland Prairie Chapter Resources
Here are some recommended resources from the Blackland Prairie Chapter of the Native Prairies Association of Texas. Our Prairie Defender Friends Native Prairies Association of Texas: Fort Worth ChapterBotanical Research Institute of TexasTexas Invasives.orgNative Plant Society of TexasNature Conservancy of TexasNorth Texas Master Naturalists back to page menu Our Nature Read more…
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Prairies of North Texas
(Photo by Sean Fitzgerald) The native grasslands of the Blackland Prairie region in this list represent the rare remainders of a vast ecosystem, of which less than 1% still exists. These important vestiges of our prairie heritage range from a few to over 1400 acres. Other types of prairies in North Central Texas, Read more…
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About the Blackland Prairie
The original prairie is a diverse unplowed ecosystem of mainly native grasses and flowering plants (forbs). The type of prairie called Blackland once stretched from the Red River to the Gulf Coast. The bands of dark alkaline clays grow especially robust stands of tallgrass prairie grasses such as big and Read more…
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Native Plants and Prairies Day Article in The Advocate
A nice article from the Lakewood/East Dallas edition of The Advocate can be found HERE!!! There’s only one correction–native plants will be sold by Texas Conservation Alliance, Native Plant Society of Texas, and Randy Johnson Organics.
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Happy Spring 2022
Hey Everybody! Happy Spring 2022! Our chapter leadership has been very busy planning Native Plants & Prairies Day that will be held on May 7th at The Bath House Cultural Center at White Rock Lake from 10am to 3pm. In lieu of any meetings, in person or on Zoom, we Read more…
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Blackland Chapter Zoom Meeting
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 7 p.m. Strengthening NPAT and Prairies in North Texas Dr. Carly Aulicky, NPAT’s North Texas Outreach andStewardship Director, finished her doctorate at KansasState University in 2020. Carly has been applying herskills to build relationships with landowners andpartner agencies throughout North Texas, organizeand lead workshops, monitor Read more…
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Three Acres by Brenda Catlett
I grasp the Johnsongrass, sorghum halepense, at ground level, easing the roots out of the soil. If I’m lucky the ground will give way and I’ll pull a long fleshy rhizome out with the stem, removing the plant’s ability to spread in this prairie. This land is not mine but Read more…
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Save the Date: May 7, 2022
Save the Date: May 7, 2022–Volunteer Opportunity–Native Plants and Prairie Day at White Rock Lake Bath House Cultural Center This White Rock Lake event will be “revived!” Following in the footsteps of veteran North Texas Master Naturalist leadership, the Blackland Chapter of Native Prairies Association of Texas, in partnership with Read more…