NPSOT-NPAT 2007 Joint Symposium

Grand Prairie

More Information

  1. Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas
    1. Page 48, Introduction / Cross Timbers and Prairies / Grand Prairie
  2. Conservation Priorities for Texas: A Guide to Ten Threatened Natural Areas in the Lone Star State.  Tallgrass Prairies.
  3. Native Prairies Association of Texas
  4. Handbook of Texas Online: Grasslands
  5. Range Types of North America
    1. True Prairie
  6. Great Plains Restoration Council

Places to Visit 

The following protected lands (public and private) contain tallgrass prairie remnants:
  1. Caddo-LBJ National Grasslands, northwest of Fort Worth (USFS)
  2. Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, Lago Vista, Travis County (USFWS)
  3. Mother Neff State Park, Moody (TPWD)
  4. Chalk Mountain, Somervell County (NAPA)
  5. Simpson Prairie, McLennan County (NPAT)

Places Needing Protection

  1. Rock Creek Prairie (aka Fort Worth Prairie Park), 2000 acres, Fort Worth
  2. Large 100-1000 acre hay meadows in Cooke and Montague Counties


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