Ecologically, Fort Worth sits at the crossroads of east and west and is one of the most biologically diverse regions in the nation. Texas is in the Central Flyway for migrating birds. Using visual cues such as rivers and surface vegetation, birds select the best location for food and shelter.

The Fort Worth Prairie’s Cretaceous geology erodes into unique bench and seep topography that creates habitat for many native endemic plants that exist nowhere else in the world.

The Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge (FWNC&R) is a natural area comprised of forests, prairies, and wetlands allowing you to step back in time and experience what the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex was like in the early 20th century.

Jun 27, 2024 · What type of biome does Fort Worth Texas have? Fort Worth is located in the Fort Worth Prairie, which is a southern part of the North American Tallgrass Prairie. This rare and diverse ecosystem comprises of tallgrass prairies, limestone seeps, shortgrass prairie barrens, creeks, and wetlands.

The Fort Worth Prairie is a unique ecosystem of tallgrass prairie, limestone seeps, shortgrass prairie barrens, creeks, and wetlands. It is a southern biome of the North American Tallgrass Prairie, and one of the rarest ecosystems in North America.

The Cross Timbers is a complex mosaic of woodlands and grasslands that form a broad ecotone between the eastern deciduous forests and the grasslands of the southern Great Plains; covering about 26,000 square miles. East and West Cross Timbers couch …

Surrounding the Fort Worth Zoo, Forest Park affords visitors with a little bit of wilderness along the Trinity River in downtown Fort Worth. The river attracts numerous Barn Swallows, Cliff Swallows and Purple Martins, which come to drink.

The Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge is a nature center located between Lakeside and Lake Worth, Texas within Fort Worth, Texas city limits. It consists of prairies, forests, and wetlands. The nature center offers a glimpse of what the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex looked like …

Fort Worth Limestone lies above the Duck Creek Formation and below the Denton Clay. This formation consists of a series of aproximately 1 foot thick alternating layers of marl and and chalky white limestone.

Fort Worth and the larger DFW Metroplex were founded upon virgin prairie, yet is “park poor” when it comes to Western-scale conservation lands. The Fort Worth Prairie Park will not only be a grassland park for all of North Texas, but the country’s first major city wildland park protecting ancestral wild prairie as part of its identity.