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  2. Coastal Prairie Conservancy - Wikipedia

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    Coastal Prairie Conservancy was established in 1992 to conserve Katy Prairie, part of the Western Gulf coastal grasslands located in Texas, United States. Approximately 24,500 acres is under conservation easements or owned by CPC in western Harris and Waller Counties.

  3. Texas Blackland Prairies - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains, scattered across Texas in parcels. [4]

  4. Western Gulf coastal grasslands - Wikipedia

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    Williams Prairie, a 10-acre (40,000 m2) remnant prairie preserve west of Houston in Waller County, Texas, USA. The ecoregion covers an area of 77,425 km 2 (29,894 sq mi), extending along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico from southeastern Louisiana (west of the Mississippi Delta) through Texas and into the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as far as the Laguna Madre.

  5. New foundation launches $20 million Texas land ... - AOL

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    According to a 2023 report by Texas A&M's Natural Resources Institute, 70 percent of Texas river basins have highly diminished stream flows, and the state is expected to face a 6.9-million-acre ...

  6. List of nature centers in Texas - Wikipedia

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    North Texas Wildlife Center: Plano Collin County North Texas North Texas Wildlife Center (NTXWC) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization committed to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of local injured or orphaned wildlife. Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve and Learning Center: Corpus Christi, Texas: Nueces County, Texas: South Texas: website: Rio ...

  7. Texan by Nature - Wikipedia

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    Texan by Nature was founded by former First Lady Laura Bush in 2011. Its stated mission is to, "align the broad interests of conservation groups with the resources of businesses, health care institutions, schools, the scientific community, and faith-based organizations [to] ... collectively create a positive impact for Texas’ economy, people, and land for generations to come".

  8. List of protected grasslands of North America - Wikipedia

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    The tallgrass prairie ecosystem covered some 170 million acres (690,000 km 2) of North America. Besides agriculture, much of the shortgrass prairie became grazing land for domestic livestock . Short grasslands occur in semi-arid climates while tall grasslands are in areas of higher rainfall.

  9. North Texas - Wikipedia

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    North Texas is a term used primarily by residents of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex [7] [8] ... Grand Prairie: 199,395 15 127 McKinney: 214,302 17 155 Frisco ...