NPSOT-NPAT 2007 Joint Symposium

Blackland Prairie

More Information

  1. Prairie Time: A Blackland Portrait by Matt White
  2. Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas
    1. Page 32, Introduction / The Blackland Prairie
  3. Conservation Priorities for Texas: A Guide to Ten Threatened Natural Areas in the Lone Star State.  Tallgrass Prairies.
  4. Silvues Dropseed Prairies of Northeast Texas
  5. World Wildlife Fund: Texas Blackland Prairie
  6. Soil Physics at Oklahoma State
  7. Texas Parks and Wildlife: Blackland Prairie
  8. Native Prairies Association of Texas
  9. Range Types of North America
    1. Tallgrass Prairie (Interior)
  10. Handbook of Texas Online: Grasslands

Places to Visit 

The following protected lands (public and private) contain tallgrass prairie remnants:
  1. Clymer Meadow, Greenville, Hunt County (TNC)
  2. Parkhill Prairie, McKinney, Collin County (Collin County)
  3. Garnett Prairie, Grayson County (Austin College)
  4. Cowleech Prairie, Hunt County (TNC)
  5. Tridens Prairie, Paris, Lamar County (TNC)
  6. Gambill's Goose Refuge Prairie, Paris, Lamar County (City of Paris)
  7. Cedar Hill State Park, Cedar Hill
  8. Stella Rowan Prairie
  9. White Rock Lake Prairie (City of Dallas)
  10. Kachina Prairie, Ennis, Ellis County (NAPA)
  11. Riesel Prairie, Falls County (NPAT)
  12. Lehmann Prairie, Falls County (NPAT)
  13. Nelson L. Wieting Prairie, Falls County (NPAT)
  14. Indiangrass Preserve, Austin, Travis County (City of Austin)

Native Plant Communities

  1. Schizachyrium (Little Bluestem) Dominated Communities
  2. Tripsacum-Panicum-Sorghastrum (Eastern Gamagrass-Switchgrass-Indiangrass) Community
  3. Sporobolus-Carex (Silveus' Dropseed-Mead Sedge) Community
  4. Schizachyrium-Paspalum-Sorghastrum (Little Bluestem-Brownseed Paspalum-Indiangrass) Community
  5. Herbaceous assemblage on ourcrops of the Austin Chalk

Places Needing Protection

  1. 3000 acres, Silveus' Dropseed prairie, Lamar County
  2. 2000 acres, Eastern Gamagrass prairie, Austin County
  3. 300 acres, Little Bluestem-Indiangrass prairie, Van Zandt County
  4. Other 5-300 acre hay meadows scattered throughout the region

To contact us:
Email: symposium2007@npsot.org
Phone: 830-997-9272
Mail: NPSOT, P.O. Box 3017, Fredericksburg, TX 78624