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Hello from the Fort Worth Prairie! I'm Ashley Lacamp and I recently joined the board of Great Plains Restoration Council. I'm a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley. As a Fort Worth native, I'm extremely passionate about preserving our community's ecological health. I've always been one to spend any time I can outdoors. I love riding horses, hiking, and being on the water. I'm excited to share with you some updates from the prairie.
Grassland birds of the Fort Worth Prairie
Below are a few recent photos of some birds who spend the winter on our endangered Fort Worth Prairie. Aren't they beautiful? We couldn't help but share.
As you know, we had a severe winter storm recently but these amazing birds survived because they are adapted to prairie weather extremes. It is our mission to save the wild prairie they live on as they play a large part in our ecological health.
We're doing our part to create the largest public prairie in North Texas through our Fort Worth Prairie Park project.
Spring is coming, and we'll be sending many more photos as the year progresses.
We have a Restoration Not Incarceration™ work project beginning March 30th removing some brush overgrowth.
Speaking at Yale University tomorrow (Thursday) March 18, 2:15 p.m. Eastern/1:15 p.m. Central
Also, Great Plains Restoration Council founder Jarid Manos is speaking at Yale this Thursday at the first-ever "Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction" conference, along with Dr. Christine Norton of Texas State University, who is a pioneer in eco-psychotherapy and wrote the chapter about our work in the book Environmental Social Work. This talk will tell the story of GPRC's Restoration Not Incarceration™.
The Yale University event is co-convened by Boston College and funded by the National Science Foundation. (It was moved to Virtual due to the Pandemic.)
We're excited that GPRC's Ecological Health model, particularly through our Restoration Not Incarceration™ program, continues to expand as we offer it for others to adopt and adapt.
You can register to attend here. The event will also be available via archive.
https://hixon.yale.edu/events/conference/social-and-ecological-infrastructure-recidivism-reduction
Come visit us and the wild grassland nesting birds on our Fort Worth Prairie, one of North America's rarest ecosystems.
Thank you as always for your support!
Kindly,
Ashley Lacamp
Board Member
Great Plains Restoration Council
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American Kestrel (formerly known as Sparrow Hawk).
Meadowlark weathering the frigid Texas Winter Storm 2021, perfectly adapted to life on the open prairie.
Once common, Meadowlarks are now also in rapid decline because of destruction of remaining wild prairies.
Male Eastern Bluebird on cockleburs.
Northern Harrier Hawk among some brush-overgrown country. GPRC's Restoration Not Incarceration™ work helps restore open grassland. Northern Harriers are another grassland-dependent, ground-nesting bird.
Bald Eagle
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