Saving the Fort Worth Prairie
OUR MISSION:
Great Plains Restoration Council (GPRC) works to restore and protect our shattered prairies and plains through developing youth leaders in Ecological Health. Protecting wild nature is a matter of public health, and participating hands-on in its recovery offers therapeutic modalities for many social and physical ills. The Buffalo Commons has always meant a renewal of health for people and nature on the Great Plains.
GPRC’s social work is:
Our goal is to serve 10,000 young people over the next five years through direct Ecological Health programming.
GPRC’s ecological work is:
- Fort Worth Prairie Park (Fort Worth, TX)
- Oglala Prairie Preserve (Expansion of Badlands National Park, SD)
- Katy Prairie and Coastal Bayous Restoration (Houston Coastal Prairie, TX)
- Southern High Plains Preserve (Northeastern New Mexico)
- Saltwater Country: Bringing Wild Buffalo Back to the Beach (Texas Gulf Coast)
Work in nature heals lives, promotes health, provides grounding, focuses attention, earns self-value, and reduces violence and recidivism. Wild nature, in turn, recovers from an onslaught of annihilating forces.
Ecological Health: The Interdependent Health of Humans,
Animals and Ecosystems.
