Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions in Nacogdoches, Texas
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Top 14. Best Tourist Attractions in Nacogdoches, Texas: Nacogdoches Visitor's Center, Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden, Millard's Crossing Historic Village, Sterne Hoya House Museum, Old University Building, Lanana Creek Trail, Stone Fort Museum, Piney Woods Native Plant Center, SFA Mast Arboretum, Durst-Taylor House and Garden
Native Perennial Plants in the Home Landscape by Greg Grant - LNPS Annual Meeting 2015
Greg is a horticulturist, conservationist, and writer from Arcadia, Texas. He lives in deep East Texas in his grandparent’s restored dogtrot farmhouse where he tends a small cottage garden full of old fashioned flowers, the Rebel Eloy Emanis Pine Savanna and Bird Sanctuary, a rare stand of Trillium recurvatum , and terriers Acer, Ilex, and Lizzie. His real job, however, is at the Stephen F. Austin State University Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches, Texas
LaNana Creek Part 5.1
JIMMY HINDS PARK & PINEY WOODS NATIVE PLANT CENTER
The LaNana Creek Trail's North end begins with the Jimmy Hinds Park. Jimmy Hinds was an agriculture teacher at SFA, who used this place of LaNana Creek bottomland for a garden before World War II. The family's generosity has let this special woodland treasure be something for all to enjoy.
The Piney Woods Native Plant Center, or Tucker Woods until recently, used to be called the Blount Woods in early times, because the thirty-nine wooded acres on LaNana Creek belonged to Stephen Blount. Mrs. Edward Blount Tucker inherited the woods from her father and built the Tucker House on the property in the late 1930's. SFA bought the Tucker estate from the heirs in 1986, and in 2000 SFA officially designated the property as the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, only the third garden to be affiliated with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
The Pineywoods Native Plant Center is filled with old growth hickory, sweetgum, red oaks, and many of the creek bottom trees of East Texas. This patriarch forest was thinned dramatically by a twister that came through in 1999 and by droughts in 1997-2000. In 1991, the LaNana Creek Trail volunteers began clearing the path through the briars, brush, and privet hedge that grew along the creek bank and under the forest canopy. The LaNana Creek Trail through the Tucker Woods was finished in 1993. In 1994 an Eagle Scout project built a walkway across a creek drain and swamp, and another trail was cut from the LaNana Creek Trail west to Raguet Street. This was called the Tucker Woods Trail.
The Tucker Woods are now and forever more the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, a university resource directed by SFA Professors James Kroll of the College of Forestry and Dave Creech of the SFA Mast Arboretum.
The force of connection with nature
The Aztec Cultural Legacy Chickawa dancers from Mexico perform at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus in Nacogdoches, Texas. The dancers dance several ritualistic performers demonstrating our connections with nature.
SFASU Control Burn 2009
The Pineywoods Native Plant Center's annual control burn fills the sky above the Tucker Woods with smoke as the marshy area is set ablaze to mimic a nature's positive affects of fire on a wildlife area.
Green Mountain Energy Sun Club donates solar panels to SFA
Green Mountain Energy Sun Club donated $30,000 to SFA for an installation of a solar array system to provide energy for the new Ina Brundrett Conservation Education Building. The system should supply 60 to 80 percent of the building's energy needs.