Texas

Between 1992 and 1999 TPL has helped conserve many acres of the Barton Creek greenbelt, which begins at Barton Springs, near Austin, Texas, creating a large metropolitan park.

In 2004, The Trust for Public Land purchased ten acres on a sweeping bend in the Buffalo Bayou for a new waterfront park, providing the crowded East End of Houston with access to this historic waterway.

In 2009, the counties of Bastrop, Caldwell and Hays participated in a community-driven process to complete a regional greenprint for all of Central Texas.

Beginning in 2017, The Trust for Public Land, Texas Trees Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy have collaborated on an initiative to combat the urban heat island effect, provide greater connectivity among the community's anchor institutions, and improve community health in South Oak Cliff.

Winding through the hills and valleys of southwest Dallas, Five Mile Creek's 70-square mile watershed includes blackland prairie, limestone creeks, old-growth forests, and wildflower meadows, yet many of these natural features are inaccessible and disconnected from the city's parks and trails - until now. 

One of the last large undeveloped tracts on the west end of Galveston Island, the 300 acres of prairie and marsh at McAllis Point offer critical habitat for birds, including sandhill cranes, which nest there from November to March.

Ostermayer Bayou, a 45-acre property on the Texas coast, was a key site on the conservation radar for West Galveston when The Trust for Public Land purchased and protected the land.

The iconic Hill Country of Central Texas is a place of raw beauty, serenity and solace, yet is under tremendous development pressure from nearby Austin. Few large tracts of land, like the Peaceful Springs Preserve, escape the bulldozer's blade. Protecting Peaceful Springs Preserve not only expands the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge's public holdings, but also protects vanishing habitat for endangered songbirds and migrating Monarch butterflies.

River Ranch is located near the town of West Columbia and is an untouched and spectacular natural landscape just 60 miles southeast of Houston.

Since 2010, The Trust for Public Land has worked with the City of San Marcos, Texas, to acquire over 400 acres of land to add to the City's Purgatory Creek Natural Area, now one of the largest urban wilderness parks in the state of Texas. The City has a vision of a perimeter, a "green necklace”, of parks and open spaces, the 102-acre tract known as Sink Creek is a key addition to the City's vision.

Using funds from a local bond measure, we protected more than 1,000 acres of rolling hills with limestone outcroppings northeast of San Antonio on the Wind Gate Ranch.