"Each site will apply the same principles." Volunteers launch ambitious effort to transform once-barren US landscape: 'Will ...

John Lingenfelder, a board member of the Native Plant Society of Texas’ Collin County Chapter, explores a Blackland prairie remnant in Plano’s Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve. Texas’ tallgrass ...

presented by the North Texas Master Naturalists, Native Plant Society of Texas, Dallas Chapter, and the Native Prairies Association of Texas, Blackland Prairie Chapter. Step into the vibrant world of ...

On a blustery morning in April, the gently rolling green hills of Clymer Meadow Preserve look vaguely like the scene of an Easter egg hunt. Three dozen visitors scatter across the lush terrain at this ...

I’m a Blackland Prairie gal. I fell in love with it the moment I saw a small patch of brushy bluestem grass asserting itself in a pasture of Bermuda. But it wasn’t until I walked Clymer Meadow, a ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Texas Tribune. One sunny morning in May, four high school students stood on a flower-dappled prairie in southern Dallas holding shovels.

Students and naturalists have been sneaking onto private land to extricate threatened native plants: “This is a war between us and the developers, and nobody’s calling uncle.” (Grist/Amelia K. Bates) ...