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Friends of Coppell Nature Park

The Friends of Coppell Nature Park (FCNP) promotes the preservation of our natural environment through conservation and education.

The Park's development has been fostered by citizen and youth participation. The Nature Park is a natural habitat for hawks, coyotes, bobcats, and other animals. More than 130 different species of birds migrate through the park each year and numerous types of native vegetation may be found within the Park.

04/22/2026

Happy 56th Earth Day from Friends of Coppell Nature Park!
This Earth Day we wanted to highlight one of our main missions - Restoration. We are restoring native prairies and establishing new prairies at the Coppell Nature Park. Part of our restoration efforts includes planting native wildflowers and native grasses!

These are 3 of our favorite species of native wildflowers, which our talented crochet artist and friend, Sowjanya, has made into a wildflower bouquet:

Lemon Beebalm 💜
- 2-4 stacked whorls of purple blooms
- Smells like lemons when leave or flower is rubbed
- Bees love it, hence the name
- Part of the mint family

Black Eyed Susan 🤎
- Dark brown to almost black center with bright yellow long petals
- Butterflies love them
- State flower of Maryland
- Part of the sunflower family

Prairie Coneflower 💛
- Long column flower head, which can be green to brown, with drooping small petals
- Comes in many variations - petals can be yellow or red or red with yellow ends
- Resembles a Sombrero Hat
- Part of the sunflower and daisy family

Visit the Coppell Nature Park to see these flowers in bloom! To donate or volunteer with FCNP visit the link in bio

prairierestoration nativeplants

03/01/2026

If you have 2 thumbs (no matter what color!) and a desire to restore your community’s ecosystem, this is an opportunity for you!
Support our FCNP student board member, Gabby, at her capstone project where you will learn about and protect the TX blackland prairie in our own Coppell Nature Park. Follow the link in bio or email Gabby to reserve your limited spot!

11/01/2025

📸: A group of fantastic students who spent their rainy morning tackling a grove of Ligustrum Sinense aka Chinese Privet 🌿
Privet is a highly invasive shrub which has made its unwelcome home in the park for many years. It’s a multistep process for complete removal and step one is cutting down during the non-growing season.

We made great progress today thanks to New Tech’s National Honor Society volunteers. Thank you to all who helped this project today, we couldn’t keep Coppell Nature Park beautiful without you!

09/21/2025

Restoring Praries and Having Fun at Fall Frolic with FNCP!

📸: .snapshots

09/18/2025

🌱✨ Give. Grow. Guard. ✨🌱
Today is North Texas Giving Day and Friends of Coppell Nature Park needs YOUR support! 💚

Less than 1% of Texas’s Blackland Prairie remains, but together we can restore it:

🪻Give: $100 restores 1,000 sq ft of prairie, $500 plants 60 milkweeds for pollinators.
🌱 Grow: Help us remove invasive species like privet and Johnson grass
📚 Guard: Fund free monthly nature programs by keeping education accessible to all.

Your gift today ensures prairies are restored, wildlife is protected, and our community grows closer to nature. 🌎💫

👉 Join us this North Texas Giving Day and help us Give, Grow, Guard for the future!

09/17/2025

North Texas Giving Day is coming up quick, and donating through Friends of Coppell Nature Park is a great way to positively impact your community. Every penny counts, as donated money goes towards helping the environment and planting local wildlife to increase biodiversity.

Help us reach our goal of 5k!

You can donate at https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Friends-Of-Coppell-Nature-Park, by scanning the QR code above or visiting the link in bio!

09/15/2025

Donate to the Friends of Coppell Nature Park for North Texas Giving Day! Your donation could have an incredibly large impact on our local plants and animals, as well as the park as a whole. Every little bit goes a long way!

Help us reach our goal of 5k!

You can donate at https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Friends-Of-Coppell-Nature-Park, by scanning the QR code above or visiting the link in our bio!

09/13/2025

Friends Of Coppell Nature Park introduces one of many unique projects it hopes can help the Coppell Biodiversity Center and the city of Coppell!
We design the nature education programming for 2 Saturdays each month.

Our volunteers take visitors on guided hikes through park on the 1st Saturday of each month. Themes for the hikes include ‘Hike with your dog’, ‘Pollinators Hike’, ‘Wildflowers Hike’, ‘Arbor Day Hike’, ‘Colors of the rainbow Hike’ and so much more.

On the 2nd Saturday, we invite naturalists, paleontologists, birders, environmentalists, entomologists, UNT research scholars and more to conduct lectures and workshops at the Biodiversity Education Center (BEC) on their area of expertise. These lectures and workshops provide advanced training for Texas Master Naturalists as well as introduction to the topic for young children, families and students.

Help us raise 10K— Every little bit goes a long way!

You can donate at https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Friends-Of-Coppell-Nature-Park, by scanning the QR code above or visiting the link in our bio! Help us reach our goal of 5k!

09/12/2025

Friends Of Coppell Nature Park introduces one of many unique projects it hopes can help the Coppell Biodiversity Center and the city of Coppell!

Less than 1% of Texas’s original Blackland Prairies still exist. FCNP is leading prairie restoration projects at the Coppell Nature Park, which require native plants and seeds. For example, with $500 of donated funds we can purchase 60 milkweeds for our native pollinators and with $100 we can purchase 1000 sq ft of native seeds.

Funds will also be used for chemical free invasive species removal, such as privet and Johnson grass.
Every little bit goes a long way!

You can donate at https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Friends-Of-Coppell-Nature-Park, by scanning the QR code above or visiting the link in our bio! Help us reach our goal of 5k!

09/10/2025

Friends Of Coppell Nature Park is excited to reannounce North Texas Giving Day! Donate to help fund future community events, prarie and park restoration, and wildlife preservation. Every little bit goes a long way!

You can donate at https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Friends-Of-Coppell-Nature-Park, by scanning the QR code above or visiting the link in bio ! Help us reach our goal of 5k!

Address

367 Freeport Parkway
Coppell, TX
75019

Telephone

+19727549997

Website

http://coppellnaturepark.org/, https://www.northtexasgivingday.org/organization/Friends-Of-Coppell-Nature-Park

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