Connecting with Community to Protect Marfa’s Grasslands

Photo: Shelley Bernstein
GRANT NAME:
Connecting with Community to Protect Marfa’s Grasslands
GRANTEE:
Big Bend Conservation Alliance
LOCATION
Marfa, TX
AMOUNT
$10,000
Year
2022

The success of this project will conserve, in perpetuity, 30 acres of grassland—with potential to store 150 tons of carbon—just outside of Marfa, Texas with plans completed for 3 miles of recreational trails on the site, which will be co-created by 50-100 community members living in close proximity.