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A five-hour, 350-mile journey from the West Texas town of Canyon to Fort Worth brought something good to the city-owned nature center. About 100 black-tailed prairie dogs are now burrowing their way ...

Chris Smith’s earliest memory of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge was a school field trip she took as a child. She distinctly remembers walking around Greer Island and taking it all in. “If ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Prairie dogs are making a triumphant, albeit cautious, return to the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge. Staff at Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge recently relocated a group of ...

If residents saw smoke around the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge near Lake Worth on Thursday, Feb. 5, it was on purpose. The Fort Worth Parks and Recreation Department performed a prescribed fire ...

A 10-foot-long alligator was removed from Eagle Mountain Lake by Texas Parks and Wildlife and Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge personnel on Thursday morning, according to a county commissioner's ...

There’s a spot in northwest Fort Worth that contains 3,700 acres of untouched and protected prairies, forests, wetlands and swamps. This landscape contains a diverse set of life ranging from bison and ...

Fort Worth’s Nature Center is using its small bison herd to restore prairie ecosystems, echoing conservation successes seen across North America and even in Europe. The herd’s rotational grazing ...