NPAT Education Director Della Barbato organizes regular school field trips to our marvelous Deer Park Prairie. When the bus from Houston’s Sam Rayburn High School pulled up last fall, teacher Cheri Crawford’s students stepped off and glanced around. Many of them looked bored. Others seemed apprehensive. What is this place? Read more…
It’s April – City Nature Challenge Month! CNC is a worldwide contest: everyone can participate and help Greater Houston win! Don’t know what this is? Join the Houston – Native Plant Society of Texas (H-NPSOT) on Thursday, April 15, 2021, at 7 p.m. to learn from TWPD biologist Craig Hensley Read more…
We are extremely sad to announce that HNPAT (Houston – Native Prairies Association of Texas) member and devoted Lawther – Deer Park Prairie (DPP) volunteer Charlie Lundquist of Friendswood passed away on Saturday, May 16, 2020. Charlie had been volunteering at Deer Park Prairie since 2014, the year when NPAT Read more…
From the HNPAT March Newsletter (subscribe to the monthly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/79rdz ): Native Prairie Association of Texas’ (NPAT’s) first Party for the Prairie, a luncheon on March 7, 2020 at Safari Texas Ranch to raise funds to sustain the Lawther – Deer Park Prairie Education Program, was a Texas-size Read more…
HOSTED BY NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS You are cordially invited to join us in honoring the conservation work of Susan and Peter Conaty at Party for the Prairie! Saturday March 7, 2020 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Safari Texas Ranch, Palm Pavilion 11627 FM 1464, Richmond, TX 77407 Read more…
Katy Prairie Conservancy’s Prairie Seed Collection Season for 2019 starts this month with two seed collecting trips: Wednesday, July 10, to Deer Park Prairie Friday, July 12 to Katy Prairie Conservancy’s Indiangrass Preserve For more information and to register, see 2019 Seed collecting information sheet. To be notified of future Read more…
For a copy of the flyer in pdf click here. Join the Houston Chapter – Native Prairies Association of Texas (HNPAT) For Our Annual Moth Night Saturday, July 20, 2019 at Deer Park Prairie 1222 E. Purdue Lane, Deer Park 77536 (Please do not park directly in front of our Read more…
Lawther – Deer Park Prairie Preserve Celebrating the 5-Year Anniversaryof the purchase and conservation easementthat saved this 52-acre incredible prairie remnant April 27 – Saturday SPRING WILDFLOWER DAY AT THE LAWTHER – DEER PARK PRAIRIE PRESERVE 1222 E Purdue Lane, Deer Park, TX 77536 (Please do not park directly in Read more…
As part of the North American Prairie Conference, the Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT) with supported from Shell is sponsoring a Prairie Art Contest for students from grades 6-12. If interested, please contact [email protected] Della is NPAT’s Education Director.
Scroll down for HNPAT’s September Fundraiser Appeal results . This year’s Fall Prairie Day on September 29 was essentially cancelled due to weather. The official events such as lunch, insect tent, etc. were cancelled during mid-week due to predictions of inclement weather. Some volunteers were still planning to continue with Read more…