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Location: Bayland Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77074 Presentation: Conservation Easements by Dalmara Bayne…
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Prairie Facts
Today the tallgrass prairies of Texas are very rare. Less than 1% of the original 20 million acres of Texas’ beautiful tallgrass prairie remains and losses are still occurring to plowing, improper overgrazing, and development.
Prairie Quiz Answers
1. Texas wild rice (Zizania texana)
2. Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense)
3. Sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipedula)
4. Muhly grasses (Muhlenbergia species)
5. Texas Bluegrass (Poa arachnifera)
6. Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon)
7. Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
8. Common Carpetgrass (Axonopus affinis)
9. Eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum datyloides)
10. Buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides)