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Plans to replace the rare prairie with a concert amphitheater were thwarted...Carol [Clark, of the Collin County Native Plants Society] comments, "People with boomboxes and beachballs aren't better than those with binoculars. Introverts need outdoor recreation space too. And there are a lot of us."

In 2011, an American bald eagle pair began nesting in a nearby electrical tower. Concern for the eagles' safety and potential power disruptions led to an adjacent faux electrical tower being constructed while the eagles were away. Their nest was carefully moved to the fake tower, and upon their return, the eagles accepted their new location.

Birds, along with some insects, are the only great migrations remaining in North Texas. Gone are bison herds that once maintained the prairie with voracious appetites, trailed by wolf packs, also extirpated. The rhythms of migration tie us to a larger world, to a sense of time not artificially defined. To participate in migration, even as an observer, reunites us with our human core.

After~2 hours..maybe 2000 inspected & discarded rocks-+four snakes, a pack of wild hogs, and a gang of turkey vultures eating something stinky-I noticed an odd & intricately curved rock..It was a good-sized mosasaur vertebra...the purposeful & exquisitely detailed shape of a well-preserved fossil bone are unmistakeable. I was holding a 75-million-year-old bone of a marine reptile I'd found..just an hour from my house