WALLER COUNTY, Texas - After four years of planning and efforts, the Coastal Prairie Conservancy has opened Texas' first certified conservation cemetery, as part of a prairie reclamation project in Waller County. There are fewer than 500 green burial cemeteries in North America, and a handful in Texas that offer simple burials that allow the body to decompose naturally and return to the earth.

Waller County: Texas' first certified natural-burial cemetery

Local perspective:

The conservancy says it has room for 1,900 plots for burial, and several hundred for cremated remains to be interred.

The Blazing Star natural burial ground accepted its first burial in April.

70-year-old Trudy Catania is described by family as a fierce nature-lover who quickly embraced the plan to be buried th

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