PRESERVATIONISTS PURCHASE DEER PARK PRAIRIE 
No thanks to Stephen Colbert, but enough money has rolled in from more than 1,000 donations — including $2 million from Terry Hershey — for the Bayou Land Conservancy to buy up those 53 acres of prairie near Luella Ave. and Spencer Hwy. in Deer Park and stave off a subdivision. Still, at least one question remains: What else is there to do with so much prairie? Lisa Gray explains: “The conservancy plans to donate the land to the Native Prairies Association of Texas, which would manage the health of the prairie and provide guided tours.” [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot] Video still: via Brian Traylor
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congratulations, you own a prairie
Great job by the Bayou Land Conservancy, Terry Hershey, and all the individual donors out there. The good guys do win sometimes.
I don’t guess we could adapt it to underground floor retail, could we?
Guided Tours of the prairie in Deer Park Texas?
fun…. …. …
awesome news!
Thank the FSM!!!
Would make a great dove hunting spot…
Guided tours? Really? There thousands of acres of identical prairie all up and down the Gulf Coast. Yet people will want to tour these 53 acres with a potential to occasionally smell sulfur in the air due to the location?
People that think this is a win really have some screwed up priorities.
Next up, each side of the prairie gets bordered by industrial development! LOL
hrm, but what will the call it? Terry Hershey Park is already taken, how about Terry Hershey Prairie?
Fifty-three acres is not a prairie. If you want to save the prairie, get in a time machine, go back about 200 years, and shoot all the settlers.
Finally!!! Some people got together, pooled the cash and bought something that they wanted saved instead of moaning and groaning but doing nothing about it.
Much more effective than telling other people here on SW what should have been done and crying about mean old developers.
(I’m looking at you, Mel & WASP)
Good job guys!
@kjb434
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this before…
Guided tours? Really? There thousands of acres of identical
prairieforested bayous all up and down the Gulf Coast. Yet people will want to tour these53124 acres with a potential to occasionallysmell sulfurhear the noise of traffic in the air due to the location?People that think this is a win really have some screwed up priorities.
Next up, each side of the
prairiebayou gets bordered by industrial ,commercial, and residentail development! LOL–Houston Post editorial about the newly donated land for a park along Buffalo Bayou
Call the new park “Terry’s Prairie”! :)
“A little Prairie on the Terry”?
anyone?
The only downside is that it probably will essentially come off the tax roles. It has made some people feel good without causing others any harm. Win-win.