RSVP 2025 Seed Collecting Trips
Join the Coastal Prairie Conservancy to collect local prairie plant seeds! Volunteers work to collect seeds which support numerous conservation programs in southeast Texas, and no experience is necessary. These volunteer opportunities have a tremendous impact on regional conservation efforts, and volunteers are invited to visit prairies not generally open to the public. 

Seed collecting is a leisurely way to enjoy the prairie and learn prairie plants. Walk with a companion in the prairie and run your hand up the appropriate seed head. Seeds that easily fall in your hand are ripe for collection.

All seeding collecting opportunities will be announced in the Coastal Prairie Conservancy's monthly newsletter, so please join our newsletter email list. A separate seed collecting email list will only be used for notification of an impromptu trip.

This Google Form will be used to RSVP for all future seed collecting volunteer opportunities. Save the following link for future access: https://bit.ly/25seedrsvp. (Note: use the lower case letters as shown.) For more information or questions, please contact Lan Shen via email at Lshen@coastalprairieconservancy.org.

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**If you have not done so within the past year, please sign a CPC liability waiver online or fill out the printed waiver before participating in the field trip.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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I am registering for the 9:00 am - 11:30 am, Wednesday, November 12, 2025, seed collecting trip to the Gerhart/Formosa Plastics Prairie with CPC and Mark Morgenstern.

The Gerhart/Formosa Plastics Prairie is on Highway 288 feeder road between Houston and Angleton. Google map. There is road construction near there. We had trouble getting there via Google map last year. Please indicate how many people are in your party (including yourself). Note: scale starts from zero, in case you need to cancel.

Waivers needed if you do not have one on file for the past year: Coastal Prairie Conservancy liability waiver or CPC online and the Gerhart/Formosa Plastics liability waiver. To volunteers who are collecting for other organizations, we would appreciate it, if you would donate a portion of your seeds to CPC.

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I am registering for the 9:00am - 11:30 am seed collecting trip to the Deer Park Prairie on Tuesday, November 18. Please indicate how many people are in your party (include yourself). Note: scale starts from zero, in case you need to cancel.

Meet at 1222 E. Purdue Ln, Deer Park, TX 77536. Please do not park directly in front of our neighbors' houses.

New procedure: when you arrive, please enter the house to sign in before going onto the prairie.

Waivers needed if you do not have one on file for the past year: NPAT liability release DPP AND either CPC online (preferably; please use your phone) OR Coastal Prairie Conservancy liability waiver in pdf . Other links: About Deer Park Prairie & HNPAT (note: the tabs on the top of the HNPAT website goes to the state organization NPAT).

The plant list for the Deer Park Prairie is at this link.

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I am registering for the 9:00am - noon, Thursday, November 20, 2025, seed collecting trip to the Mowotony Prairie (on county rd 18 near Nash Prairie). Please indicate how many people are in your party (including yourself). Note: scale starts from zero, in case you need to cancel.

Note: Nash was burned. Parking is limited at the Mowotony. Depending on how many people signed up, we may need to meet at Nash and carpool to the Mowotony. (Link to map of Nash & Mowotony https://www.nature.org/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/documents/Nash_Aerial_8.5x11.pdf, scroll down for map of Mowotony.)

REGISTER and you will receive a reminder email either 1 or 2 days prior with instructions. 

Waivers needed if you do not have one on file for the past year: Coastal Prairie Conservancy liability waiver or CPC online . You will be asked to sign the TNC waiver, when you get there.

The plant list for Nash Prairie is at this link (pp. 686-690) and in the Addendum (pp. 381-382), both of which are downloadable.


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I am registering for the 9:00 am - 11:30 am, Friday, December 18th, seed collecting trip to the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center. (Click  this link for location and parking information) Please indicate how many people are in your party (include yourself). Note: scale starts from zero, in case you need to cancel.

Meet at in front of the Visitors' Center and we will walk together to the meadows. Waivers needed if you do not have one on file for the past year: Coastal Prairie Conservancy liability waiver printed copy or CPC online .


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Scheduled seed collecting trips will be announced in CPC's monthly newsletter. Sign up here to receive updates on upcoming trips and be sure to check the "General interest" box. 

To receive updates on impromptu seed collecting trips, please check the button below. If you have already signed up for this list, please DO NOT sign up again. 
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