• Federal Wildlife Management
    As a Federal Wildlife Management Area, LLELA is charged with protecting the native plants and animals that call these lands home.

  • Prairies
    Only tiny islands of native North Texas Prairie remain! Work has begun to preserve what is left and restore what was lost.

  • Bottomland Forests
    Much like the other ecosystems of north central Texas, the bottomland hardwood ecosystem has been decimated and fragmented, with only a few small and isolated patches of old growth left scattered amongst the younger forests of the floodplains.

  • Aquatic Habitats
    Like much of North Texas, LLELA is host to a variety of aquatic systems, from the perennial Elm Fork of the Trinity River, to lakes, former stock ponds, and prairie potholes; from intermittent creeks and streams such as Office Creek, to traditional emergent wetlands such as the Cottonwood Marsh.
  • Prescribed Fire
    Research and training in the use of prescribed fire in prairie restoration.

  • Wetland Ecology
    Research in constructed and natural wetlands.

  • Prairie Ecology
    Research in bison reintroduction and management techniques.

  • Research Notes Series

  • Graduate theses and dissertations

  • Bison
    Bison were extirpated from North Central Texas more than 100 years ago. Now a small herd calls LLELA home.

  • Prairie
    Before the pioneer movement, healthy North Texas prairies were dominated by little bluestem, big bluestem, sideoats grama, indiangrass, and buffalo grass.

  • Invasive Species
    Controlling invasive plant and animal species is LLELA’s greatest management challenge.

  • Reintroduction
    Putting back the missing pieces of our ecosystems.