Nash Prairie Preserve

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The 300-acre Nash Prairie—or hay meadow, as most locals call it—is the largest surviving remnant of coastal prairie in Texas. The prairie is a haven where tall grasses billow over sedges and wildflowers. “I've never seen any place like this in Texas,” says Cecilia Riley, executive director of the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory in nearby Lake Jackson, who has led birding trips in the area. Sparse trees dot the vista, most of those in wet depressions in the surrounding grasslands or along a distant fence that marks the property's boundary. To the east, one of the few remaining bottomland hardwood forests rises above the sea of grass. “It's an example of what the Texas and Louisiana coastal prairies once looked like,” Riley adds.“ This is what we should strive for in restoring them.” Source: "Jewel in the Rough: Pristine Prairie on a Working Ranch" by Jeffrey P. Cohn. BioScience 56(1):8-11. 2006.
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