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Despite being limited to 6 acres, this place offers a chance for some environmental education on the Rio Grande Valley, discovering the habitat it provides for a number of bird, reptile, and botanical species. Through bogs and gardens, look out for such things as butterflies and kiskadees on the trail.
Exhibits on local history, e.g. fossils, costumes, Harlon Block (one of the Marines who planted the American flag on Iwo Jima).
A 15 acre property that provides habitat to butterflies, birds, and animals in Tamaulipan Thornscrub forest and wetland habitat.
Another preserve with state park status, this larger expanse, as in 230 acres, has a grebe pond and lots of rushes and trails along Llano Grande Lake for exploration.