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An expansive view of hills covered in trees and shrubs with green and orange leaves. — TNC Texas Fall foliage at TNC's Love Creek Preserve in the Texas Hill Country. © Kenny Braun

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The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has protected land and water in Texas since 1964. To date, we’ve conserved over 1 million acres of land and more than 200 miles of rivers and streams. With your support, we can continue working to safeguard the state’s natural landscapes, preserve freshwater supplies, protect our coastline and improve resilience for future generations.

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Protecting Nature for Tomorrow's Texas (1:52) See how The Nature Conservancy and partners have worked to preserve over 1 million acres of land across the Lone Star State, conserving the natural places, wildlife and resources we depend upon and love.

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What We Do in the Lone Star State

We're working collaboratively with partners to protect nature and develop sound science that supports ecology, economy, public health and equity.

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Where Legacy Meets Land: A Prairie Protected for Generations

TNC and partners secured the largest conservation easement ever preserved through RESTORE funding, protecting 6,409 acres of the historic T.M. O’Connor Ranch in the Refugio-Goliad Prairie.

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Enchanted Rock: A Texas Treasure

In 1978, The Nature Conservancy purchased Enchanted Rock, setting into motion the permanent protection of one of Texas' most beloved landmarks.

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Love Creek Preserve

Love Creek flows through TNC’s 2,845-acre preserve before joining with the West Prong of the Medina River, eventually contributing to the Edwards Aquifer.

Fall For Nature

Plan your leaf peeping adventure at TNC preserves across North America, including right here in the Lone Star State. Our Lennox Woods Preserve in North Texas offers scenic trails, with brilliant displays of fall color adorning its old-growth forests.

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Lennox Woods Preserve 4 Lennox Woods Preserve in fall. © R.J. Hinkle

2024 Texas Annual Report

We're celebrating 60 years of conservation success in Texas, with big wins and achievements from the past year and beyond.

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Barton Creek Habitat Preserve

Austin, TX

Barton Creek Habitat Preserve is a scenic and pristine landscape in Austin that protects the habitat of endangered songbirds and preserves the quality of water in the Barton Creek.

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Brazos Woods Preserve

West Columbia, TX

Located in one of the most ecologically rich parts of Texas, Brazos Woods Preserve comprises 681 acres of lush, old-growth forests and wetlands known as the Columbia Bottomlands.

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Powderhorn Ranch

Calhoun County, TX

Powderhorn Ranch is one of the largest remaining undisturbed tracts of native coastal prairie habitat left in Texas and likely the largest conservation deal in Texas' history.

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Davis Mountains Preserve

Fort Davis, TX

The wild and remote Davis Mountains are considered one of the most scenic and biologically diverse areas of Texas.

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Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve

Mason County, TX

The Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve is one of the largest bat nurseries in the country—about four million female Mexican free-tailed bats inhabit the site from May to Sept.

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Bay waters cut through green, lush marsh habitat; a series of industrial buildings are visible in the distance.

Texas City Prairie Preserve

Texas City, TX

In Texas City, situated on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, TNC is working to improve the health of the Gulf, protect freshwater and preserve coastal habitat.

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Clymer Meadow Preserve

Celeste, TX

The 1,400-acre Clymer Meadow Preserve contains some of the largest and most diverse remnants of the Blackland Prairie.

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Love Creek Preserve

Bandera, TX

Love Creek flows through TNC’s 2,845-acre preserve before joining with the West Prong of the Medina River, eventually contributing to the Edwards Aquifer.

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Cibolo Creek gently flows between the rolling, green vistas of the Texas Hill Country, dotted by cactus and shrubs.

Frank Klein Cibolo Bluffs Nature Preserve

Comal County, TX

Situated about 20 miles northeast of San Antonio, Cibolo Bluffs is a scenic landscape that includes nearly three miles of Cibolo Creek, which spans both Comal and Bexar counties.

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Lennox Woods Preserve

Red River County, TX

This beautiful old-growth forest preserve is not only a refuge for rare plant and animal communities, but is also open to the public during daylight hours for self-guided hiking.

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Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary

NW of Silsbee, TX

The Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary harbors a variety of plant species, including one of the last remaining longleaf pine communities in Texas.

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Smiley Meadow Preserve

Paris, TX

TNC's Smiley Meadow Preserve protects nearly 1,000 acres of rare Silveus dropseed prairie found only in the Lone Star State.

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Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve

Cameron County, TX

Located on the Rio Grande in the southernmost part of Texas, the Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve protects one of the last stands of native sabal palm trees in the nation.

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Refugio-Goliad Prairie Project

Victoria, TX

Partnerships with private landowners in the Texas coastal plains are helping to stave off extinction of the endangered Attwater's prairie chicken.

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Sandia Springs Preserve

Balmorhea, TX

This spring complex in the Balmorhea area contributes to one of the largest and most important of the remaining desert spring systems in West Texas.

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Diamond Y Spring Preserve

N of Ft Stockton, TX

The 4,099-acre Diamond Y Spring Preserve protects one of the largest and last remaining ciénega systems in West Texas and critical habitat for the Leon Springs pupfish.

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Marathon Grasslands Preserve

Marathon, TX

Marathon Grasslands Preserve represents 2,701 acres of some of the most diverse Chihuahuan Desert grassland habitat in Texas and supports a vast array of wildlife.

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Nash Prairie Preserve

Brazoria County, TX

The 427-acre tract is one of the last remaining segments of the Great Coastal Prairie, which once spanned six million acres between Louisiana and Texas.

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Francine Cohn Preserve

Mustang Island

TNC's Francine Cohn Preserve is a key conservation area with essential habitat for numerous commercially and recreationally important marine species.

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Shamrock Island Preserve

Corpus Christi Bay

TNC's Shamrock Island Preserve, near Corpus Christi, is one of the most important bird rookeries in the Gulf.

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A rocky Independence Creek runs through a dry landscape.

Independence Creek Preserve

Sheffield, TX

The pristine waters of this desert oasis preserve make a substantial contribution to the Pecos River corridor wildlife community downstream.

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Dolan Falls Preserve

Val Verde County, TX

TNC's 4,788-acre Dolan Falls Preserve is bolstered by an additional 135,000 acres of permanently protected land along roughly 25 miles of the Devils River.

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An expanse of dense coastal wetlands intermixed with open water along the Texas Gulf Coast at sunset; the sky is orange.

Runnells Family Mad Island Marsh Preserve

Collegeport, TX

The Clive Runnells Family Mad Island Marsh is part of an expansive coastal wetlands system along the mid- and upper-Texas Gulf Coast, with nearly 250 species of birds.

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Fred and Loucille Dahmer Caddo Lake Preserve

Caddo Lake

Formed by Big Cypress Bayou, Caddo Lake and its wetlands are made up of over 25,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forests and shallow bald cypress swamps along northeast Texas.

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Sunset over a field with trees in background. — Brazos Woods Preserve Sunset at Brazos Woods Preserve in Texas. © Jamie Wentz

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