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Inhabitants of the Blackland PrairieBurr Oak - Donor of $5000 and Up
Bison Donor of $1500 - 4999
Coyote Donor of $1000 - $1499
Coneflower Donor of $500 - $999
Box Turtle Donor of $100 - $499
Horn Toad $50 to $99
Firefly Up to $49The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion covers an area of 19,400 square miles, consisting of a main belt and two islands of tallgrass prairie grasslands southeast of the main blackland prairie belt. Both the main belt and the islands extend northeast/southwest. The main belt consists of oaklands and savannas and runs from just south of the Red River on the Texas-Oklahoma border through the Dallas-Fort Worth region and into southwestern Texas. The larger of the two islands is the Fayette Prairie,and the smaller is the San Antonio Prairie. The two islands are separated from the main belt by the oak woodlands of the East Central Texas forests, which surround the islands on all sides but the northeast, where the Fayette Prairie meets the Piney Woods forests. Because of the soil and climate, this ecoregion is ideally suited to crop agriculture. This has led to most of the Blackland Prairie ecosystem being converted to crop production, leaving less than one percent remaining and making the tallgrass prairies the mostendangered large ecosystem in North America.¹ This years Earth Day sponsorship levels honor several of the native residents of the Blackland Prairie. Hopefully, we will become better stewards of their home and further restore more of their original habitat. 1. Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks, et al. (1999). Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press Inhabitants of the Blackland PrairieBurr Oak - Donor of $5000 and Up
Bison Donor of $1500 - 4999
Coyote Donor of $1000 - $1499
Coneflower Donor of $500 - $999
Box Turtle Donor of $100 - $499
Horn Toad $50 to $99
Firefly Up to $49The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion covers an area of 19,400 square miles, consisting of a main belt and two islands of tallgrass prairie grasslands southeast of the main blackland prairie belt. Both the main belt and the islands extend northeast/southwest. The main belt consists of oaklands and savannas and runs from just south of the Red River on the Texas-Oklahoma border through the Dallas-Fort Worth region and into southwestern Texas. The larger of the two islands is the Fayette Prairie, , and the smaller is the San Antonio Prairie. The two islands are separated from the main belt by the oak woodlands of the East Central Texas forests, which surround the islands on all sides but the northeast, where the Fayette Prairie meets the Piney Woods forests. Because of the soil and climate, this ecoregion is ideally suited to crop agriculture. This has led to most of the Blackland Prairie ecosystem being converted to crop production, leaving less than one percent remaining and making the tallgrass prairies the mostendangered large ecosystem in North America.¹ This years Earth Day sponsorship levels honor several of the native residents of the Blackland Prairie. Hopefully, we will become better stewards of their home and further restore more of their original habitat. 1. Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks, et al. (1999). Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press |