A FAUNA natural area

O.S. Gray Natural Area

Pond Woodland trail Birding

A quiet woodland and pond tucked off Abram Street — a small refuge for birds and the people who watch them.

At a glance

20 wooded acres of pecans, oaks, woody vines, and native wildflowers
Mulched nature trails through former nursery land
Beavers, foxes, butterflies, and abundant birds
Cared for by the Friends of O.S. Gray Natural Area (est. 2010) with the city

A little history

This was the O.S. Gray Nursery, started in 1926 and run here for more than five decades, founded by Oscar “O.S.” Gray — an agronomy teacher at North Texas Agricultural College (now UTA) and a famed papershell-pecan breeder whose nursery shipped more than a million pecan trees around the world. When the land faced development in the 1990s, a community campaign sparked by six-year-old Annie Donovan and a 500-signature petition saved it; it was dedicated as O.S. Gray Park in 1997 and redesignated a Natural Area in 2010.