Sponsors
Sponsorship Levels - Inhabitants of the Blackland Prairie
Burr Oak - Donor of $5000 and Up
- Recognition in press releases and on all radio spots
- Sponsorship noted with each act and all stage announcements
- Organization Banner Prominently Displayed at Event
- Appreciation Award Presented on Stage Organization Banner
- Your Organizations Name in Large Font On Earth Day T-Shirts
- Earth Day Participation Certificate
- Recognition on Earth Day Web Site and Program
Bison Donor of $1500 - 4999
- Sponsorship noted with each act and all stage announcements
- Organization Banner Prominently Displayed at Event
- Appreciation Award Presented on Stage Organization Banner
- Your Organizations Name in Large Font On Earth Day T-Shirts
- Earth Day Participation Certificate
- Recognition on Earth Day Web Site and Program
Coyote Donor of $1000 - $1499
- Organization Banner Prominently Displayed at Event
- Appreciation Award Presented on Stage
- Your Organizations Name in Large Font On Earth Day T-Shirts
- On Stage Recognition to over 10,000 participants
- Earth Day Participation Certificate
- Recognition on Earth Day Web Site and Program
Coneflower Donor of $500 - $999
- Appreciation Award Presented on Stage
- Your Organizations Name in Large Font On Earth Day T-Shirts
- On Stage Recognition to over 10,000 participants
- Earth Day Participation Certificate
- Recognition on Earth Day Web Site and Program
Box Turtle Donor of $100 - $499
- On Stage Recognition to over 10,000 participants
- Earth Day Participation Certificate
- Recognition on Earth Day Web Site and Program
Horn Toad $50 to $99
- Recognition on Earth Day Web Site and Program
Firefly Up to $49
The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion covers an area of 19,400 square miles, consisting of a main belt and two islands of tallgrass prairie grasslands southeast of the main blackland prairie belt. Both the main belt and the islands extend northeast/southwest.
The main belt consists of oaklands and savannas and runs from just south of the Red River on the Texas-Oklahoma border through the Dallas-Fort Worth region and into southwestern Texas. The larger of the two islands is the Fayette Prairie, , and the smaller is the San Antonio Prairie. The two islands are separated from the main belt by the oak woodlands of the East Central Texas forests, which surround the islands on all sides but the northeast, where the Fayette Prairie meets the Piney Woods forests.
Because of the soil and climate, this ecoregion is ideally suited to crop agriculture. This has led to most of the Blackland Prairie ecosystem being converted to crop production, leaving less than one percent remaining and making the tallgrass prairies the mostendangered large ecosystem in North America.¹
This years Earth Day sponsorship levels honor several of the native residents of the Blackland Prairie. Hopefully, we will become better stewards of their home and further restore more of their original habitat.
1. Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks, et al. (1999). Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press