Prairie Pandemonium at Armand Bayou Nature Center

Are you looking for a fun way to make a difference in your local environment?  Help Armand Bayou Nature Center to restore the tall grass prairie, a critical native habitat. This event is scheduled for October 17th, 2009. Sign-in will begin at 8AM and the project will last from 9AM to noon.  Lunch and door prizes included.  Volunteers should be 12 years of age or older, and if under 18 to be accompanied by an adult.  You will become a part of a team planting effort.  Participants will need sturdy shoes and clothes that can get muddy.  The nature center will provide tools and work gloves.
Tall grass prairie once covered at least nine million acres along the coastal plain of south-central Texas and southwestern Louisiana.  Today, more than 99% has been lost to agriculture and urbanization.  What remains is highly fragmented and severely threatened by development and non-native vegetation.  At seven hundred acres, Armand Bayou Nature Center manages one of the most extensive holdings of coastal tallgrass prairie in the lower Galveston Bay watershed.
Pre-registration is required to participate.
To register, contact Christine Smith at 281-474-2551, or email chris@abnc.org.