STATE PARKS: GRANT FOR CAPROCK: Money from a media 
mogul helps the state bison herd and prairie dogs ... details 
on Passport to Texas.

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Caprock Canyon State Park secured a 65-thousand dollar 
grant from the Ted Turner Foundation to help habitat 
restoration for the state bison herd. Our State Park Guide 
Bryan Frazier has details.

63 -- The Ted Turner Foundation has a history with helping restore 
bison nationwide. They've given a grant to Caprock Canyon SP, 
and that can go for everything from fencing to prairie 
restoration -- things that will help that Texas State bison herd 
more viable, more diverse, and just more thriving and visible just 
so the people of Texas can enjoy it. And the superintendent there, 
Donald Beard, has done some really interesting things to help 
restore that prairie habitat there. Everything from getting some 
donated money to get a big machine that carves up some of the 
invasive red berry juniper and mesquite trees to make the prairie 
habitat come back even quicker. But they're also planning to do a 
prairie dog town restore, where they're relocating some black-
tailed prairie dogs from Lubbock out to the park. So you should 
have more of a thriving prairie ecosystem that resembles what we 
had here in Texas before European settlement. And that's the long 
range plan. And this grant from the Turner Foundation allows us 
to really get a jumpstart on that -- and they're just really doing 
some great things at Caprock Canyon State park.

Thanks Bryan

That's our show for today ... with funding provided by 
Chevrolet, supporting outdoor recreation in Texas; because 
there's life to be done.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife I'm Cecilia Nasti. 








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