Fort Worth Sierra Club
Sierra Club mission: To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; And to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
Locally the Greater FW Sierra Club group has around 2,000 members and covers all or large parts of the following counties - Tarrant, Johnson, Wise, Parker, Hood, Somervell, Jack, Palo Pinto, Erath, Young, Stephens, Eastland, Comanche, Throckmorton, and Shackelford; and small parts of Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Denton, Callahan, Brown, and Hamilton.
Texas Environmental Profiles
An information and online activism resource for the state of Texas.
Texas Native Plant Society
The purpose of the Native Plant Society of Texas is to promote the conservation, research, and utilization of the native plants and plant habitats of Texas, through education, outreach, and example.
Texas Land Trust Council
The Texas Land Trust Council was formed in 1999 in partnership with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to serve as a support association for all land trust organizations in Texas. Today the Council is an independent organization which continues its work to promote and sustain the conservation efforts of Texas land trusts.
Native Prairies Association of Texas
Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT) is a non-profit land trust dedicated to the conservation, restoration, and appreciation of native prairies, savannas, and other grasslands in Texas. Of the original 20 million acres of Texas' tallgrass prairie, less than 1% remains. NPAT protects over 1200 acres of native Texas prairie, and the organization also is active in prairie restoration and education. The website has descriptions and photos for each of the prairie tracts that it protects through ownership or easement.
The Ancient Cross Timbers Consortium
The Cross Timbers and Post Oak Savanna form an ecotone between the eastern deciduous forest and the grasslands of the southern Great Plains. The rugged old-growth woodlands in this area, extending across 700 miles from southeastern Kansas to southern Texas, were not commercially important and they harbor some of the largest tracts of relatively undisturbed ancient forest and woodland left in the eastern United States. They form a key link in the oak archipelago that extends from Central America into southeastern Canada, providing essential habitat for many species, including neotropical migratory birds.
The Ancient Cross Timbers Consortium unites educational institutions, government agencies, conservation organizations, and individuals to better understand and sustain these Cross Timber remnants through research, education, and conservation. A growing network of cooperative Research Natural Areas has been established on public and private land. The website has a map of the potential natural distribution of the Cross Timbers ecosystem and its existing remnants, other basic information, photos, historical descriptions of Cross Timbers, a bibliography of relevant publications, decriptions of the 14 established RNAs, and a photo essay of problems presently confronting the ancient Cross Timbers.
