PRAIRIE PLANT-A-THON: It's a plant party and you're 
invited ... details ahead ... on Passport to Texas.
 
PTT from TPW and the SFWR Program 

If you're a gardener, or just looking for a volunteer 
opportunity, then put November 14th on your calendar, 
and take part in the Sheldon Lake State Park Prairie Plant-
a-thon.

:12 -- And, we hope to get a hundred, a hundred and twenty-five 
people out here to spend the morning, and see if we can get 
three thousand or so plants planted in the ground. We got 26-
hundred in, in a four hour period last November.

Robert Comstock is superintendent of Sheldon Lake State 
Park, which is outside of Houston. The Plant-A-Thon is 
part of an ongoing effort to replant 400 acres of the park 
with native tall grass species.

:06 -- Hopefully in the next two to three years we'll have all the 
prairies in the park restored to their former glory.

Many of the native grasses used during plant-a-thons, and 
weekly restoration projects, are rescued from 
construction sites around Houston by members of area 
Texas Master Naturalist Chapters.

:15 -- They dig up clumps of native grass that they identify from 
projects all throughout the Houston area. And they'll work out 
here and they'll take these clumps of grasses, and break them 
apart and put them into one gallon pots where they'll sit for 
about three months to get their roots established.

Then volunteers plant the grasses into the prairie. Find 
details about the Plant-A-Thon at passporttotexas.org.

That's our show ... made possible by a grant from the 
Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration program ... working to 
restore native habitat in Texas.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 



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