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Michelle Villafranca with Fort Worth Parks & Rec and a board member of NPAT presents on: How a Grant Expedited Invasive Species Control, Community Partnership, & Interns
For a decade, the City of Fort Worth Park and Recreation Department partnered with the Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area to eradicate privet, a non-Indigenous shrub, which crowds out biodiversity in one of the last remaining examples of Fort Worth Prairie habitat in the city. Staff and volunteers spent thousands of hours manually removing privet on the 200-acre site. Unfortunately, privet is very aggressive and manual removal is a slow, labor-intensive approach. In 2023, the city had a rare opportunity to tackle privet and other improvements simultaneously when it received a $150,000 grant from the Conservation and Environment Fund at North Texas Community Foundation. The grant enabled the city to expedite 43 acres of privet removal through a combination of aggressive tactics including forestry mulching, targeted herbicide and eventually prescribed burns, while meeting other long-term partnership goals to build trails, install interpretive signage and hire natural resource interns. Many challenges, lessons learned and triumphs unfurled while saving a prairie!
Meeting will be in person and via zoom. Social and light refreshments start at 6:30 PM; meeting and presentation start at 7:00PM. Specific directions to meeting room and zoom link can be found on Fort Worth Audubon website fwas.org Hope to see you there!
Photo of Speaker: Michelle V.
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3500 Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, TX, United States, Texas 76107
