Volunteers launch ambitious effort to transform once-barren US landscape: ‘Will stand as a living example’

One park in North Texas is working hard to earn its name through good old community effort.

At Monarch View Park in northwest Frisco, residents, conservation groups, and city partners have spent the past year transforming a once-barren slope into a thriving Blackland Prairie ecosystem.

According to Local Profile, they’ve planted more than 5,000 native plants across 90 species to bring back a landscape many had never seen in its original form…

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