Learn About Playas at Upcoming Workshop
Landowners, Master Naturalists, educators, and community members are invited to attend a Playa Field Day on Tuesday, May 21, from 9:30am to 1:00pm in Abernathy, Texas. The field day will …
Playas—also called mud holes, buffalo wallows, and lagoons—are relatively small, round, shallow depressions found primarily in the western Great Plains. Their basins are lined with clay soil, which collects and holds water from rain and runoff, creating temporary lakes.
Playa Lakes Joint Venture held a Playa Recharge Summit with scientists and researchers who study various aspects of playas to determine what is known about groundwater recharge through playas. Click on a photo below to read what they had to say.