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Wildfire In Great Trinity Forest Consumes Portion Of Big Spring Conservation...
Liz Fernandez, Director of Trinity Watershed Management, photographs a portion of the burned fifteen acres of the Great Trinity Forest in the Big Spring Conservation Area, July 25, 2014. Currently...
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Green Herons Hunting The Trinity Riverbottoms
They are some of the most elusive birds to see on the Trinity River. Small in size at only 12-18 inches with the ability to blend into almost any background, the Green Heron is one of the most...
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Migrating Monarchs At Big Spring
The migration of the tired and wary, those seeking refuge from the hostile world around them has always been a signature hallmark of the clear and clean waters of Big Spring. Man and beast alike. A...
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2014 Solar Eclipse Over Texas
Partial Solar Eclipse 2014 With Migrating Mallard Ducks Moving Across The Texas Evening Sky October 23, 2014On Oct. 23, 2014 the solar system's geometry aligned very briefly over North America to give...
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Goat Island Preserve Hiking Dallas County's New Nature Trail
The mighty Lock and Dam #2 on the Trinity River in Dallas County's Goat Island PreserveThe usually placid and calm river grumbles and roars here in protest. A place whose concrete buttresses stand as a...
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Autumn Fall Color at Scyene Overlook And Beyond
The bold and vivid colors of a Texas sunset over the Great Trinity Forest as seen from the Piedmont Ridge Overlook in Dallas, Texas November 2014The prolonged drought in Texas coupled with early frosts...
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Texas Redhead Leucistic Duck in the Trinity River Bottoms
A Redhead Duck hen showing strong signs of leucism in Dallas Texas Trinity River BottomsDucks as a general rule are so uniform is size, shape and coloration that it is impossible to tell one member of...
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Texas Water Conservation In Focus At Big Spring
Salon in the Wild at historic Big Spring with Andrew Sansom (center)Â Executive Director for The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. Left to right TPWD Biologist Brett Johnson, Wildlife...
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McCommas Bluff Nature Preserve Is Being Ruined
The before and after photos of McCommas Bluff Nature Preserve as they looked April 19, 2014 and February 8, 2015. The devastation is wholesale to a wet meadow area known for spectacular wildflowers.A...
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Snow Covers Big Spring In Dallas Great Trinity Forest
With a silence only punctuated by the distant howl of coyotes the sights of Big Spring under a record breaking snowfall are a sight to behold. Over four inches of snow blanketed the ground the night...
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Hiking Dallas Great Trinity Forest In The Snow
Sojourn in the snow swept woods and ridges of the Great Trinity Forest in DallasThe stunning beauty of the snow covered scene could be any mountainous terrain in North America. The near deafening...
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Big Spring's Vireos In The Great Trinity Forest with Father Tim Gollob
A vibrant White Eyed Vireo in the Great Trinity Forest at Big SpringThe winter and spring rains of early 2015 has brought an ocean of green growth to the Great Trinity Forest. The magnitude of growth...
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Exploring Dallas Great Trinity Forest At Flood Crest
Trinity River in Dallas, Texas flooding out the Great Trinity Forest under a spectacular sunset sky May 24, 2015Â It's the Flood of 1957. Carbon copy of a large scale drought buster that quenched...
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Canoeing The Elm Fork of the Trinity River
Famous Texas bird guide Victor Emanuel spots a Mississippi Kite with a flotilla of canoeists on the wilds of the Elm Fork in Dallas, TexasThere are many areas in Dallas Great Trinity Forest that one...
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Horseback Riding The Trinity River
Texas Trinity River's Goat Island as seen from the saddle of a horseSome of the first European American explorers to see the Three Forks of the Trinity River saw what we now call Dallas, on a horse....
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Dallas Great Trinity Forest Flood -- Kayaking across the flooded forest
Kayaking the tree canopy in the 20 foot deep water of Dallas Great Trinity ForestThe easy to photograph shots of a flooded Trinity River made a splash on the evening news or social media feeds where a...
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I-20 Dowdy Ferry Gateway Park and Horse Trail
Angel the horse takes a break from a trail ride to McCommas Bluff at the Dowdy Ferry Gateway Trail and park, May 25, 2014 Dallas, TexasLocation:Â 2081 Dowdy Ferry Road Dallas, TexasGPS...
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Great Trinity Forest and the Big Swamp
Sabal minor palms growing on the floor detritus of the Great Trinity Forest, Dallas Texas, June 7, 2014The deepest part of the Great Trinity Forest lies here. One that is rarely if ever visited by...
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Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and Kingbirds In Texas Trinity River Corridor
Texas Bird of Paradise, the Scissor Tailed Flycatcher perched on an Arkansas Yucca surrounded by Prairie Coneflower and other native wildflowers in Dallas, TexasThe strong southerly winds of a Texas...
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Swamp Hiking Beyond Big Spring In The Great Trinity Forest
The maze of wetlands, swamp and lush vegetation in the Great Trinity Forest within walking distance of Big SpringDawn on the longest day of the year lights the eastern sky well before 6am, the earliest...
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Wood Storks Taken Off Endangered Species List And Return To The Great Trinity...
A Juvenile Wood Stork at Joppa Preserve on the evening of Juneteenth 2014, Dallas Texas. One of the most rare and special animals in Texas.It was an early summer Thursday, June 26, 2014 to be exact...
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Big Spring's Rare Plants Roar Into The Record Books Of Texas Botany
Famed Botanist Julien Reverchon's Spermacoce glabra specimen collected August 1, 1902 at Buzzard Spring, White Rock Creek drainage in the riverbottoms of South Dallas. Part of the Botanical Research...
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Super Moon and Meteor 2014 Over Dallas Texas
Super Moon over the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge July 12, 2014. Shot from the junction of the West Fork and Elm Fork of the Trinity River Dallas TexasFar beyond the sights and sounds of the city, the...
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Roseate Spoonbills Wild Passage To The Great Trinity Forest
The dance of the Roseate Spoonbills in the Great Trinity Forest Dallas, Texas Summer 2014One can only imagine what this place must have looked like ten centuries ago when the Caddo danced on this very...
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Great Trinity Forest Wading Birds
Birds of the Great Trinity Forest hunting quarry near Joppa at dawnThe Trinity River's flooding events bring an immense volume of water and aquatic life into over banked areas of the floodplain. The...
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