Texas Conservation Alliance

Habitat Restoration and Lights Out for Wildlife: TCA conducts events and recruits people from a wide range of constituencies, particularly young people, to participate in habitat restoration events planting trees and native prairie plants, cleaning up trash harmful to wildlife, turning off nonessential lighting during spring and fall bird migrations (called Lights Out for Wildlife), and eliminating invasive plants from natural areas. In FY24, TCA held or co-hosted events at which more than 1,000 volunteers planted trees and prairie plants and picked up trash from Texas waterways. TCA staff, interns, and volunteers conducted on-foot surveys of downtown Dallas and Fort Worth on 138 mornings to gather data about bird mortality due to light pollution and to rehab injured birds, and urged cities, building managers, and residents to go Lights Out. TCA propagates and disseminates native plants.

Marvin Nichols Reservoir: TCA coordinates a coalition of property owners, timber industry officials, citizens engaged in agribusiness, conservationists, and other Texas residents who oppose construction of the 66,000-acre Marvin Nichols Reservoir on the Sulphur River in Texas and who advocate for cost-effective water supply options that are less damaging to the natural and human environments. This year, TCAs project, Preserve Northeast Texas, generated coverage in numerous media and print outlets, recruited more than 300 people to attend meetings, and generated comments to a state agency regarding a feasibility review of the project

Texas Conservation Alliance conducts or leads a number of conservation projects, participates in the state's water planning process,supports issues led by other conservation organizations, holds or participates in events such as Earth Day, serves on state and federal advisory boards, and disseminates general conservation information directly, at events, via email, on our website, through a newsletter, and via social media. Specific projects not listed in Part III, Lines 4b, 4c, and 4d include: support for funding for state parks, dissemination of information on water conservation and water recycling, protection of rivers, bays, and estuaries, advocating for wildlife and wildlife habitat, and input to decisions regarding management of national forests.