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March 2025 General Meeting: How a Grant Expedited Invasive Species Control, Community Partnership, & Intern
March 13 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join us on Thursday, March 13, 2025, for our meeting. The program will be How a Grant Expedited Invasive Species Control, Community Partnership, & Interns presented by Michelle Villafranca. This meeting will be both live in-person at our meeting room at the University of North Texas Health and Science Center, and streamed on our Zoom account. See below for directions to the meeting place and instructions on joining the Zoom meeting.
Michelle will discuss how, 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. The program became possible after receiving a grant enabling 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!
FWAS has invited the members of Native Prairies Association of Texas to the meeting. Our Membership Chair, Joy Havner, suggested that our own members to ‘bring a friend’ to the meeting as well. Joy is also planning to have wildflower seed packets to hand out to attendees.
As mentioned above, the meeting will be both live in-person and streamed via Zoom. The link for the on-line event is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86926227949?pwd=bYWDZsnfh23mP9GechK4OfAYJ5Rvbz.1 (if your browser needs a passcode, it is 477522)
