North Texas NPAT Prairies
Clymer Meadows – Wylie
NPAT is privileged to hold two conservation easements within the 1100-acre Clymer Meadows Preserve: the Webster Tract and the Wylie Tract. Read more »
North Texas NPAT Prairies
Clymer Meadows – Webster
NPAT is privileged to hold two conservation easements within the 1100-acre Clymer Meadows Preserve: the Webster Tract and the Wylie Tract. Read more »
North Texas NPAT Prairies
Peters Prairie
Peters Prairie is a tallgrass prairie remnant of the Blackland Prairie. Texas’ Blackland Prairie is part of the endangered tallgrass prairies of North America, of which less than 1% remains due to conversion to agriculture and development. Read more »
NPAT Prairies
Edmoore Creek Easements
The Edmoore Creek conservation easements are made up of a combination of backwater swamp regularly receiving flood waters from Edmoore and Lake Fork Creeks and a Pleistocene terrace (flat). Read more »
NPAT Prairies
Simpson Prairie
Simpson Prairie is a prairie remnant of the Grand Prairie (Lampasas Cut Plains of the Cross Timbers and Prairies) on a gently sloping hillside. Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans), and Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) are dominant grasses. Read more »
NPAT Prairies Other Lands
Tanglewood Prairie
This 31-acre tract lies along U.S. 77 south of Tanglewood in northwestern Lee County, Texas. It is longitudinally bisected by an abandoned railroad bed from which ties and rails have been removed, and is bordered on the east by a small intermittent tributary of Brushy Creek. Read more »
Kirchoff Family Farm NPAT Prairies San Antonio Chapter
Kirchoff Family Farm
This easement provides public access to the restored farm and its natural communities. The Kirchoff Family’s “Farm to Native Prairie” philosophy is a working example of how native prairies will become invaluable as more landowners become interested in restoring their own lands to native prairies. Read more »
North Texas NPAT Prairies
Paul Mathews Prairie
The Paul Mathews Prairie is a rare and pristine remnant prairie of the Blackland Prairie near Floyd, TX in Hunt County. We’ve described the historical Blackland Prairie Ecoregion which once covered millions of acres in Texas and up into the central United States. Today, very little of this habitat remains. Conserving this type of imperiled habitat is at the core of NPAT’s mission as an accredited land trust. Read more »