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Plants & Animals

The Great Trinity Forest, at 6,000 acres, is the largest urban bottomland hardwood forest in North America. The forest supports an incredibly diverse community of plants and animals and a unique mixture of bottomland hardwoods, wetland systems and grasslands.

The Trinity Center’s system of linked ponds lined with native aquatic plants attracts a wide variety of water-loving birds, reptiles and amphibians.  Wally the Great Blue Heron is resident on the site and can frequently be seen at his favorite fishing hole.

Great Blue Heron