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Organization: Collin County

John Bunker Sands Wetland Center

Set amid a working cattle ranch and an expansive wetland on the East Fork of the Trinity River, the John Bunker Sands Wetland Center is a nature center, an educational

Native Plants

Mislabeled Milkweed Warning

Across the state, there are reports that a major home improvement store is selling exotic milkweed plants as native milkweeds. Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as Tropical Milkweed, is being labeled

Plant Sale

Heard Native Plant Sale – Spotlight Species

A Gardener’s Dozen of Native North Texas Plants The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney is holding its annual spring native plant sale on April 21 –

Conservation

Planting the Seeds of Understanding

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we love only what we understand, and we understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum Bird Walk – Nature

Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area

Includes over 2,600 acres of prairies and bottomland forests adjacent to Lewisville Lake. LLELA’s mission is to preserve and restore the native habitat and biodiversity, with active prairie and forest restoration

Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge

The 11,320-acre refuge on Lake Texoma includes shallow marshes, creeks, bottomland hardwoods, forested uplands and grasslands, that provide habitat for more than 300 species of birds and many varieties of wildlife.

Native Plants

Trout Lilies (Erythronium albidum)

We continue our retrospective on timeless articles from The Coneflower Courier, our chapter’s paper newsletter from 1994 – 2001. This time it is on Trout Lilies (Erythronium albidum), a seldom

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Collin County Chapter Facebook Group

It has been a long time coming, but the Collin County Chapter finally has a Facebook group.  We invite you to join in the conversation and help to spread a