- Join Us to Honor John Egan, Recipient of HNPAT’s 2020 Prairie Volunteer Award
- Prairie Wisdom from Tim Siegmund: Bees, Pollinators, Ag Exemptions & More
- Prairie Maintenance #1: Mowing
- Nature Related Free Presentations and Videos updated 9/3/2020
- Powerpoint: Build a Pocket Prairie – Prairie Garden
- Urban Prairie Series Written & Edited by Bob Romero
- In Memory of Charlie Lundquist – Deer Park Prairie Volunteer
- Shady Nine: Video Presentation & Vote for Your Favorite Local Native Plants for the Shade
- Update on City Nature Challenge 2020
- 2020 Party for the Prairie: Photos and Report
- Party for the Prairie to Benefit Deer Park Prairie Education Program
- Updates posted on home page: register for 1/22/20 Seed Cleaning & Packing PIZZA PARTY
- Jim Duron Honored with HNPAT’s 2019 Prairie Volunteer Award
- 2019 Prairie Stampede – Prairie Awards & Holiday Potluck
- Annual Prairie Stampede – Wednesday, December 4
- Nine Natives at Garden Club of Houston’s Bulb Mart
- Shell Funds Deer Park Prairie Education 2019/20
- Teaching City-Slickers about Prairies through School Lessons, Pocket Prairies, Storytelling and Technology
- KPC’s Seed Collection Season Starts
- MOTH NIGHT at Deer Park Prairie!
- Preserving Our Environment
- 2019 Prairie 201 Teacher Workshop July 18!
- DPP Education News
- Improve Wildlife Habitat of a Disturbed Property
- 5th Anniversary + City Nature Challenge at Deer Park Prairie!
- Katy Prairie Conservancy’s City Nature Challenge Event
- City Nature Challenge 2019
- Monarch Butterfly Conservation Webinars
- Fantastic Plant Database by Larry Allain
- Prairie Art Contest
- North American Prairie Conference: June 2-5 at UH Clear Lake
- Free: Gardening with Prairie Plants & Milkweed Propagation Workshop
- Julie d’Ablaing – Prairie Volunteer Award
- 11/28/18 Prairie Stampede Previews
- Oct. & Nov. 2018 Prairie Events & More
- 9/2018 News: Fall Prairie Day; Fundraiser; Bird List
- Nine Natives: An Actuality!
- Fall 2018 KPC Seed Collecting Schedule
- 2018 Fundraising Appeal
- Links to Whooping Crane Recovery Presentation & YouTube Video
- Deer Park Prairie Fall Prairie Day, September 29, 2018 – Updated 9/20/18
- A Nine Natives Update to Celebrate National Pollinator Week
- 2018 Seed Collecting Season Starts!
- Upcoming Prairie Events
- 2018 Moth Week
- Authors Visit Deer Park Prairie
- Photos of CNC at Deer Park Prairie
- Last Day To Take Photos for City Nature Callenge!
- It’s Started: City Nature Challenge!!!
- 2018 Spring Prairie Day & City Nature Challenge Event
- Della Barbato, Director of Education
- April ’18 UP(Urban Prairie) Team Events & photo: UH Shasta Prairie Workday
- At UH’s Shasta Prairie on March 23
- City Nature Challenge.
- Events Prairies: March & April
- Flo Hannah
- Prairie Stampede in Two Days!
- 2 for 1 Bargain ~7:01 AM, Tuesday, 11/28
- America’s Grassland Conference: United for Conservation
- Seed Collecting, Early October 2017 dates
- 2017 Prairies & Pollinator Month Flyers & Agendas
- UP Team: September 2017. Aug to early Sep photos & Upcoming Activities
- Father Peter Conaty
- Kunda Wicce, NPAT Founding Member
- Let’s Help NPAT Save The Paul Mathews Prairie!
- UP Team/Aug: July Photos & News, Aug Events, & Fall Previews
- Updated 7/13/17: UP (Urban Prairie) Team Events July, 2017
- Reminder: Invasive Species ID + Field Application (Sat, 6/24) & Butterfly ID Class (corrected – Thur 6/29)
- 7/7/17 Urban Prairies Manager Summit
- The Texas Institute for Coastal Prairie Research and Education!
- Breaking News – Deer Park Prairie!
- Houston: Largest NWF Community Habitat!
- Invasives (6/24) – Butterflies (6/29) – Films (8/23)
- 2nd Annual Texas Prairies Bus Tour (Dallas) 6/3/17
- Houston, We Have Species!
- City Nature Challenge – Final Push & Wrap Up
- TODAY thru Sat, 4/22: Three UP (Urban Prairie)Team Opportunities
- As of 11:04 am: Houston 3332; DFW 4996; Austin 3068 in # of Observations for City Nature Challenge
- UP Team at MD Anderson, March 10, 2017
- City Nature Challenge April 14-18
- Prairie Mapping in Chambers County
- UP (Urban Prairie) Team @ UH Shasta Prairie + Photos of 3-3-17; UP Team Also at NatureFest on 3-4-17
- ExxonMobil Team Grant @ Deer Park Prairie Workday 1-28-17
- Deer Park Prairie Workday Photos – 2-25-17
- April 14-18: City Nature Challenge – Houston
- Upcoming UP (Urban Prairie) Team Activities
- Insect List @ Deer Park Prairie by Chuck Duplant
- 2/22/17 Saving Planet Houston
- The first, annual Conservation, Ecology, and Environmental Career Forum was a success!!
- Join the Urban Prairie (UP) Team!
- Prairies, Birds, & Pollinators Workshop 2/25/17
- 3rd Annual Native Prairie Plant and Milkweed Propagation Workshop
- 48 Participants, 691 Seed Packets & Over 4 Pounds Seeds!
- Seed Cleaning & Packing Pizza Party – January 25 @ HNPAT Meeting
- Needed, Sat,1/28, Exxonmobil People for Team Grant at Deer Park Prairie
- 1/14/2017 Deer Park Prairie Workday & Photos
- Creating Or Recreating a Prairie by Charles Allen
- Growing Prairie Plants from Seeds: Germination
- 3 Collecting Trips Week of 12/12
- Reminder: THIS Weekend is Bioblitz at Deer Park Prairie
- 3 Milkweed/Monarch Events: Sat 10/22 and two on Wed 10/26
- Prairie 101 Teacher Workshop Flyer, Sat. 10/29, 9a-2p
- Native Prairie Plant-A-Thon at Sheldon Lake
- Help with Prairie table at Houston Zoo Educator Day Science Expo, October 8th!
- Prairie and Pollinator Month 2016
- Prairie Booth Volunteer Needed: 10/15/16 – KBR Kids Day on Buffalo Bayou
- WHF’s Native Prairie Discovery Tour 10/7/2016
- Follets Island Follies?
- Bioblitz at Deer Park Prairie!
- Early Fall Seed Collecting Trips – 9/20 to 11/9
- Sat, 10/8: Great Houston Wildlife Count
- Maddin Update Sept. 8-9, 2016
- Offer @ MD Anderson Prairie: One for yourself & one for KPC
- Help Houstonians discover their natural heritage!
- Agenda for ALL Tx Prairie Enthusiasts: Bus to Tx-Cajun Prairie Symposium 9/24-25
- NPAT President, Kirsti Harms, at Maddin Prairie (Mitchell County) – update Aug 16
- HoustonPrairie.org
- Save the Date! Tx Cajun Prairies Symposium on September 24-25!
- Deadline: 6/29, Wed, for “Save Houston Prairie” T-Shirt Order
- 7/10/16: First NPAT Prairie Mapping Expedition in Harris County
- Mini Horned Lizard Bioblitz!! 6/17 & 6/19
- Insect Checklist by Chuck Duplant
- Milkweed!
- Fulshear Prairie Rescue – Just in Time!
- HNPAT at March Mart
- Sat, 4/30: Prairie Wildlife Workshop on the Katy Prairie: Identification and behavior of prairie birds, pollinators, amphibians, and mammals
- Visit Endangered Flower – Tx Prairie Dawn
- Time to get “growing”
- Big Day in the Big Thicket!
- Prairie Mapping Project Phase II Training Workshop!
- Grassroots for Change
- Plant Propagation Workshop – 2016 Prairie Power Series – 3/5/16 @ Brazos Bend State Park
- Monarch Workshop in Sugar Land 2/20/16
- How Many Non-Aggies Does It Take To Remove Two Doors on a Refrigerator? – Four
- Backyard prairie Part 2: The plot thickens…
- Survey of Texas Prairies, Phase II
- Mandell Prairie Garden – Winter Update
- Mtg W 1/27; Workday Tomorrow, Sat, 1/23, 9a-noon, Deer Park Prairie & Bird Survey @ 7:30 am
- Why Prairie Matters: Carol Davit’s Eloquent Ted Talk
- Maddin Update 12/2015 by Kirsti Harms
- Prairie fever
- Help HNPAT plan 2016
- 12/18 & 12/19 – Seed Collecting Update
- Lots of HNPAT News – December 9, 2015 eNewsletter
- W, 12/9 Holiday Potluck Details
- Holiday Potluck on Wed., 12/9 & How to get HNPAT news
- More December, 2015 Seed Collecting Trips
- Videos of Prairie Conference Now Online
- Seed Collecting: Fri, 12/4 @ Nash/Mowotony Priaire & Before Xmas @ Deer Park Prairie
- Viewing Platform at Deer Park Prairie is Complete!
- Sat., 11/14: Workshops (Free – $25) – Southern Plains & Prairie Conference
- Educator’s Workshop @ Deer Park Prairie
- Last Night’s Presentation Video – Bringing Back Horned Lizard
- Addendum Regarding “Cancelled!” & Gas Leak at the House on Deer Park Prairie.
- CANCELLED!
- Thanks to Our Deer Park Supporters!
- 2015 Prairie Month Activities
- Arrived! New Brochures
- Thanks Brandt!
- DPP Workday – 9/5/15: NPAT & BLC Volunteers Cleaning the Yard
- Flyer – Southern Plains & Prairie Conference 2015
- Deer Park Prairie: Update, Help Needed TOMORROW (9/5), Workday (9/9)
- New Deer Park Prairie Brochure
- August HNPAT news; building viewing platform; link to C. Duplant’s DPP insect photos; & more
- Silent Auction for Handmade Glass Plate by Cheryl Sedivec
- New Page: 2015 Southern Plains & Prairie Conference – Nov. 12-14
- Some August Events
- Upcoming Prairie/Plant Events – compiled 150720
- Environmental Educators’ Exchange Meets on 8/5/15 at Deer Park Prairie
- Today: 4pm, Ch 13: TPWD’s Wildlife survey of Deer Park Prairie & Sheldon Lake State Park in the News!
- Correction & Add’n: JULY Seed Collecting Trips: Fri, 7/10 & Tues, 7/14; plant rescue possible on 7/10
- Fri, 7/10 & Tue, 7/14/15 – Seed Collecting Trips
- New Page: Monarchs & Milkweeds in TX & on the Coastal Prairie
- Thanks to Garden Club of Houston for Grant for Printing of Paradise Lost? The Coastal Prairie of Louisiana and Texas
- Thanks Linda & Dave Knowles for Supporting HNPAT & DPP
- Thanks Cheryl for Donation of Beautiful Hand-made Glass
- LBJ National Grasslands in Decatur: Visit Prairies All Over TX with NPAT Chapters!
- Email of May 22, 2015
- Deer Park Prairie – One Year Later
- Visit Prairies All Over Texas with NPAT
- Prairie Celebration: Canceled – Tour on 5/9 Afternoon
- A New Season
- Registration Open & Volunteers Needed – Deer Park Prairie Celebration 2015
- Volunteers Needed to Help with Deer Park Prairie Celebration – May 9, 2015
- Q&A on Kill a Fire Ant… & Red Harvester Ants
- NEW Location for HNPAT Meetings – Start April 22
- Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Week: April 4-12, 2015
- Kill A Fire Ant – Save A Prairie Chicken
- More on Monarchs – Talk Recorded – Google Group – etc.
- Upcoming Events Announced on February 25, 2015
- HNPAT Theme for 2015: Highlighting Local Prairies
- “Growing Milkweed Dinners for Monarchs” @ HNPAT Meeting, Feb. 25 (Wed), Speaker: Barbara Keller-Willy
- Work Day On TNC Mowotony Prairie: Friday, 02/27/15 (near Nash)
- Video: Prescribed Burn at Armand Bayou Nature Center
- Fri, 2/27/15: Work Day On TNC Mowotony Prairie
- Wildlife Habitat Federation & Audio of Bob White Quail Calls
- 1/28/15 HNPAT Meeting & Miscellaneous News
- Mary Anne Piacentini of Katy Prairie Conservancy Honored with Inaugural Terry Hershey Award for Texas Women in Conservation
- A Dennis Jones’ essay made the Houston Chronicle’s online blog “Gray Matters”
- Birding at Deer Park Prairie: January 28 HNPAT Meeting at Deer Park Prairie
- Dennis-isms: Ramblings of a Park Ranger by Dennis Jones
- Prairies Vanishing & Ted Talk on Using Prairie & Nature in Cities
- Impromptu DPP Workday TOMORROW, Sunday, 1/4/15, ~10pm with Lan & Superwoman Kelly Walker &
- Saturday, 12/27/14: Bird Walk or Workday or Prairie Tour at Deer Park Prairie & Think of Us for Holiday Donations!
- Thank you, Ian & Barbara Kress!
- 2015 Preview & Tomorrow
- Thank You!
- Mark Oldham – First Eagle Scout Project at Deer Park Prairie
- Workdays Dealing with Chinese Tallow at Deer Park Prairie
- Prairie Month Event Photos
- What do you see?
- Offsprings from Monarch Way Station from Deer Park Prairie Celebration
- E. Texas Prairie & Savannah Tour Pictures
- Blaze & Graze: now prairie tours and a cookout!
- Saturday, 11/1 Seed Collecting @ Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR (near Sealy)
- Deer Park Prairie: Special help needed. + Monday 10/27 workday for Tallow removal
- W,10/22: **DPP Workday**; TH: Halloween Meeting @DPP; SAT: Trip to E. TX Prairies & Savannahs
- Prairie Dew
- The Wide View
- It’s a Small World
- Wanted: YOUR Ideas for 2014 Prairie Programs!
- Restoration Roundup in Rosenberg – Thursday, October 16, 9am – 3pm
- Sun., 10/12: Native Plant Society Field Trip to Prairie & Wetlands of San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
- Sat, 11/8/14 2nd Annual Blaze and Graze hosted by Native Prairies Association of Texas
- Tom Solomon’s Greenhouse Tour: Wed., 10/8
- Blaze and Graze and other upcoming events
- Damselfly in Dew on Lawther-Deer Park Prairie Preserve
- HNPAT September Meeting, Workdays & Upcoming Events
- Prairie Month
- Liatris aspera blooming NOW at Memorial Park Prairie
- Small Things in a Big Way
- Twilight and Moonrise Over the Lawther-Deer Park Prairie Preserve
- Insects on the Prairie
- We like insects, snakes, frogs, fields of “tall weeds”!
- Adventures with a Texas Botanist: Jason Singhurst – Texas Parks and Wildlife
- Sunrise on the Prairie
- Lawther-Deer Park Prairie Preserve – Beauty at Rest
- 9/3 – Workday (& maybe 8/30?) to Cut & Treat Trees Too Big for the Brush-hog
- Deer Park Prairie Mowed! Come on Thursday, 8/28/14 to Hear Why!
- Want to De-clutter? ….Think of us!
- Doug Haass, Deer Park Photographer, Future HNPAT Blogger
- Thanks! July 26 Volunteers
- “Silver Butt Beetle” to the Uncommon Graceful Grass-Veneer Moth to FIREFLIES! at Deer Park Prairie
- New Fort Worth NPAT chapter on cover of Fort Worth Weekly
- Prairie Description from 1832
- Thanks, DPP Volunteers!!! & other Deer Park Prairie Updates
- Friday, 8/1: See KPC’s Rarely Visited Tucker Easement & Seed Collect with Jaime & Lan
- July, 2014 HNPAT Announcements – News – Blogs – Photos
- June, July 2014 Prairie Activities in Photos
- Volunteers Needed for Workdays at Deer Park Prairie in July!
- Th, 6/26″Flora of Deer Park Prairie” by TPWD botanist Jason Singhurst & 6/28 Wildflower Walk at DPP
- NPAT’s Maddin Property
- Open HNPAT board meeting needs your input (by email or attendance on W, 6/18, 7:00pm)
- Birding at Deer Park Prairie on May 24, 2014, led by Damien Carey
- Two Opportunities for Seed Collection – Saturday, 6/7/14
- Restore an Urban Prairie at Willow Waterhole by HCFCD
- Meadowlark Training Wednesday, June 4 & Saturday, June 7
- HNPAT Announcement of May 21, 2014
- Seed Collecting & Wildlife Viewing on the Katy Prairie
- Blackland Prairie of the Sam Houston National Forest
- First Tallow Removal Day @ Deer Park Prairie!
- Fri., 5/16, Seed Collecting with Lan @ Warren Lake on the Katy Prairie
- HNPAT News/blogs – May, 2014
- Field Trip to Blackland Prairie of Sam Houston National Forest with Brandt Mannchen
- Sat., 5/10, Tallow Eradication at Deer Park Prairie, noon – ??
- 4 NPAT Field Trips in May
- Thur, 4/24/14: HNPAT Meeting & Earth Day Event
- Bird Tour of Deer Park Prairie: May 24, 2014, 8:00 a.m. RSVP required.
- Old post from April 3, 2014 transferred.
- Prairie Celebration & Dinner at Monument Inn
- DPP Management Plan Meeting
- Deer Park Prairie Workday
- HNPAT Holiday Potluck