Conservation Corner: December 2025 Updates

Kinder Land Bridge and Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Prairie is wrapping up its third full
growing season since opening the project in early 2023. Since then, many labor hours have been spent caring for the prairie. In 2025, The Memorial Park Conservancy Conservation Department’s Native Habitat team spent spring and summer months mitigating invasions of unwanted plants to limit competition of desired, native coastal prairie plants. Late summer and fall months were spent mowing the prairie to optimize conditions for native seeding.

The conversion of this low diversity, thicketed habitat into improved native Gulf Coast prairie and post oak savannah habitats will connect Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Prairie to the remnant prairie that runs along the railroad.

The Memorial Park Conservancy Conservation Department’s Native Habitat team is completing the first phase of habitat restoration in 7 acres of unmanaged habitat. Invasive species including tallow and deep-rooted sedge cover 30% of the interior area while the perimeter is covered by 60% of shrubby, thicket forming species including invasive ligustrum and native yaupon holly.