For our communities, land conservation and restoration ensure healthier land, healthier watersheds, and healthier communities. Prairie grasses absorb and hold back floodwaters while also sequestering carbon. Wetlands protect water quality and quantity. Diverse wildlife call the prairie home. Protecting coastal prairie means current and future generations can connect with nature in these wide-open spaces.
Since 1992, the Coastal Prairie Conservancy has been working to preserve the prairie for people and wildlife while there is still time. We are a nationally accredited 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Houston, Texas, and a trusted leader in local land conservation. We are also one of the largest local land conservation organizations, by acreage, in southeast Texas. Coastal Prairie Conservancy now protects over 24,000 acres of coastal prairie in Texas. On the Katy Prairie in Harris, Ft. Bend, and Waller Counties, CPC owns nearly 13,500 acres and protects nearly 5,000 acres through conservation agreements with private landowners. CPC is also working to protect coastal prairie in other Texas counties and through conservation agreements protects an additional 6,000 acres in Matagorda and Jackson Counties.
The Greater Houston region has experienced rapid growth, resulting in the conversion of farms, fields, and prairies into strip malls, offices, parking lots, and proliferating suburbs, consuming thousands of acres of the coastal prairie, one of the most important and threatened ecosystems in North America. In an effort to safeguard this important ecosystem, the Coastal Prairie Conservancy continues to work toward four primary goals: increasing protected coastal prairie lands, restoring and enhancing conserved lands, collaborating with other organizations to ensure a vibrant and resilient community, and connecting the public with nature through public access, educational programming, and outreach.
