The pale trumpets (Sarracenia alata) are displaying their yellow flowers,
and new pitchers are shooting up all over the place.
The two man-made bogs are at the beginning of the new wetlands exhibit.
The path continues to a beaver pond with water lillies, a marsh,
a duck pond, all surrounded by water and rich, blooming native vegetation, next to lake Athens.
Past gentle slopes covered in red clover are the series of ponds with a glass wall, full of countless species of native fish
swimming before your eyes. Tour the fisheries where native fish species are bred for
stocking of Texas lakes. Did I mention the stocked fishing pond with fishing rods included?
It's all at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, Texas.
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