GPRC | Great Plains Restoration Council

12/19/2022

Here it is-- the official announcement of the launch of our capstone project, the new Southern Great Plains Conservation & Recreation Area, which will culminate our lifetime of work. This is a major milestone for us.
Check it out in our Year End newsletter, and please donate to GPRC in your 2022 giving plans. Thank you very much. We can't do this work without you.



12/16/2022

Announcing the new Southern Great Plains Conservation & Recreation Area project -- our lifetime organizational goal.

Southern Great Plains Conservation and Recreation Area Great Plains Restoration Council (GPRC) has convened an A-team of executives from State agencies, conservation non-profits, foundations and banking to: “Establish a historic, landscape-scale shortgrass prairie preserve (up to 100,000 acres or ...

12/16/2022

Restoration Not Incarceration™ and Tarrant County Youth Advocate program help keep the endangered native Fort Worth Prairie prairie and our own lives alive and breathing.

12/14/2022



12/08/2022

Also in 2022

Beyond the prairies and plains, as part of our funded mission to offer and expand Ecological Health opportunities to people in other ecosystems, we partnered with Gangstas to Growers /The Come Up Project and West Atlanta Watershed Alliance.

12/05/2022

Here's one of our latest newsletters! Check out all the progress we've made on the Fort Worth Prairie Park effort.



10/29/2021

Here's our latest newsletter! Check out this beautiful Color Photo Tour and Fact Sheet of the years-long Fort Worth Prairie Park effort full of multicultural history, prairie animals, plants and waters, and our Plains Youth InterACTION™ and Restoration Not Incarceration™ teams on the ground.

Check out this beautiful Color Photo Tour and Fact Sheet of the years-long Fort Worth Prairie Park effort full of multicultural history, prairie animals, plants and waters, and our Plains Youth InterACTION™ and Restoration Not Incarceration™ teams on the ground.

04/15/2021

Releasing the Texas Spiny Lizard we rescued back into the Fort Worth Prairie, his shining eyes, supple neck, and ability to still love life intact.
He had gotten his head stuck in a discarded plastic shotgun shell.
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04/15/2021

After about an hour and a half of painstakingly surgically cutting tiny bits of the plastic shotgun shell off the head of this Texas Spiny Lizard, he was free. The lizard was found stuck by Joshua, one of the youth on this Restoration Not Incarceration™ prairie restoration work project for the Fort Worth Prairie Park.

We had to use a blunt-nosed manicure clippers which Tarrant County Youth Advocate Program advocate Johnny Muhammad had to race and get from Walmart, but it worked.

Plastic trash is a terrible lethal danger to wildlife!

For every animal found and rescued on land or at sea, likely hundreds of thousands if not many more suffer and die.

While GPRC founder Jarid Manos was doing the operation, he said he could feel the life "pulsing" in the little 8-inch animal's neck as the lizard "clutched my fingers with his own little hands."

Jarid said the hardest part was not breaking his neck or blinding him, as his eyes protrude on the widest part of his skull, which was where the plastic shell was wedged the tightest.

04/13/2021

While working on prairie restoration at the trailhead to the new Fort Worth Prairie Park area we came across this Texas Spiny Lizard who had gotten his head stuck deep inside a discarded shotgun shell. See next posts for what happened next.

Plastic pollution is an extreme danger to all of us. It's now even getting into our own bloodstreams. Plastic never goes away; it just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces, killing along the way.

04/09/2021

Thank you to Congressman Marc Veasey for coming out to the Fort Worth Prairie to take our youth workers on a hike, talk about birding and protecting the Earth as a matter of our own health, about the importance of civic participation, and just hang out and talk with them.

04/08/2021

Dr. Rosena Clarke-Turner, Licensed Master Social Worker, is rejoining our Board for a new term. Welcome back! Dr. Turner helped Great Plains Restoration Council create the foundational Life Wheel through which we teach all our Ecological Health work. Here she is with GPRC Founder Great Plains Restoration Council Jarid Manos by East Dutch Branch Creek/Fort Worth Prairie Park. Wild, healthy, unmodified, undamaged prairie creeks are pretty amazing.