The 5,935,160 acres of the Neches Watershed contains 377 miles of river corridor, and 18 counties, including the cities of Tyler, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, and Beaumont.
What We’re Protecting
The Neches River is truly one of Texas’ wildest natural assets. Its sometimes steep, heavily wooded banks and bluffs grow a combination of pines and hardwoods – oak, hickory, dogwood, pecan, and blackgum. During the last half of the twentieth century, TLC Founder Ned Fritz was the foremost champion of the Neches River. He advocated strongly for protection along the length of the entire river – from the headwaters starting in the Post Oak Savanna, winding through some of the most biologically diverse forests and wetlands in the U.S. known as the Pineywoods ecoregion, to where it flows into Sabine Lake in the Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes ecoregion on the Texas/Louisiana border.
Current TLC Conservation Properties
- Banita Creek Preserve
- Borrega Creek Preserve
- Catahoula Forest
- Daisetta MB
- Frazier-Runnels Wildlife Preserve
- Grass Lake
- Hickory Ridge
- Longhorn P Ranch
- Marysee Prairie
- McAfee Nature Preserve
- Mud Creek MB
- Nachoniche Creek
- Orton Hill
- Pineywoods MB
- Rush Creek
- Scoober Creek MB
- Walker Creek Preserve
