Thornscrub Sanctuary Land Project
Added 2024-01-05 17:37:12 +0000 UTCAttached are some photos from the 40 acre parcel we are moving towards purchasing in March. It has a number of rare plants on it including Asclepias prostrata and Physaria thamnophila. It also has a ton of buffel grass which we will need to remove. I am extremely excited about this, as it gives us an opportunity not just to restore a piece of degraded land (half of it was root-plowed 20 years ago), but it gives us a chance to eventually share this land with others. We've had many hiccups, namely in dealing with 3rd party money-taking institutions like Venmo and Cashapp, but are finally verified and have set up a bank account using the kind friends at Morningstar Conservancy as our fiscal sponsor.
If all goes well, we will be building a visitor center with a library that can serve as both a headquarters and a research station. The property will need to fenced and have trails built, but at some point we hope to be one of the only, if not THE only, educational center about the Thornscrub habitat of South Texas.
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Very excited to watch this project unfold, I cannot wait to visit!
Treebeard
2024-02-09 18:20:26 +0000 UTCi wonder if The Nature Conservancy can help with that?
Janis Farmer
2024-01-09 00:50:08 +0000 UTCI'm not sure what you mean. The land will be owned by myself and eventually by Thorn scrubs Sanctuary once it is finally incorporated as a non-profit hopefully by this time next year. Eventually we will be putting it into a conservation easement but to do so we have to find an entity that will do that for us without charging and endowment.
Anthony J Malone
2024-01-09 00:31:30 +0000 UTCThe property parcel needs to be surveyed and re-boundaried by the current owner still.
Anthony J Malone
2024-01-09 00:29:52 +0000 UTCWe have a Cashapp and Venmo account and can also take payments over Zelle. Venmo and Cashapp are thornscrubsanctuary, Zelle address is thornscrubsanctuary@gmail.com. Our nonprofit fiscal sponsor is Morningstar Conservancy. All donations are tax-deductible.
Anthony J Malone
2024-01-09 00:28:40 +0000 UTCI want to be part owner, is it possible to invest?
Prof Braino
2024-01-07 00:48:12 +0000 UTCThis is beyond fucking rad.
Daniel White
2024-01-06 06:22:40 +0000 UTCWhy y’all gotta wait till march?
emmanuel martinez
2024-01-06 01:45:30 +0000 UTCWhat a great project. Are you able yet to provide more-detailed information about making donations?
Margaret Garigan
2024-01-05 18:54:34 +0000 UTC
