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Advanced Training Prairie Walk: 12 Common Blackland Prairie Native Grasses

10/15/2026 by mconnally

Submitted by Jay Wooldridge and Dick Zartler

AT: 12 Common Blackland Prairie Native Grasses (in-person)

Saturday, November 21⋅9:30 – 10:30am

Wylie City Hall

Bldg 100, 300 Country Club Rd, Wylie, TX 75098, USA

12 Common Blackland Prairie Native Grasses 
November 14, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Wylie City Hall Complex, 300 N. Country Club Road, Wylie, TX

This event is a one-hour outdoor hands-on presentation of 12 of the most common Blackland Prairie grasses contained in individual plots located within the Wylie prairie restoration project. Each plot contains fully mature and, hopefully, seeding grasses which have been planted over the past 14 years. Access is via a regularly maintained grassy trail running through the prairie.

Principal discussion leaders will be Jay Wooldridge and Dick Zartler.  Park at the adjacent City Hall Complex.

Meet at the tall Prairie Restoration sign on the north side of the parking lot. 

Opportunity: AT: BPTMN: Other Pre-Approved Training Duration: Approved for 1 hour of AT Description: Wylie City Hall Complex: Wylie Prairie Restoration, Topic: 12 Common Blackland Prairie Native Grasses, Presented by BPTMN members Dick Zartler and Jay Wooldridge

Filed Under: Current News Tagged With: Blackland Praire, Blackland Prairie Chapter, Dick Zartler, Jay Wooldridge, STT 75

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