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Trinity River Wetlands -- Waterfowl and The Cormorant Roost
The lengthening shadows of autumn and the cold crisp of the morning dawns are slowly ushering in the birds of the Canadian wilderness into the Trinity River Wetland Cells. The muted squawk calls of...
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Trinity River Trail Between The Levees Becomes A Reality
Newly Paved Trinity River Bike Path, November 1st, 2012A planned multi-use path between the Trinity River Levees near Downtown Dallas took a step closer towards reality in the first week of November...
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Exploring The Trinity River By Canoe --The Trinity River Paddling Trail
Quietly meandering from the heart of a downtown metropolis to the edge of the rural Texas countryside, the Trinity River Paddling Trail offers a unique look at a slice of Dallas few people will ever...
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Fall Red Woods of the Great Trinity Forest
Polished like a ripe apple of autumn the Piedmont Ridge, Oak Creek and Devon Anderson Red Oaks ooze a palette of red, yellow and orange unique to this part of Dallas. The frost red thickets perched...
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First North Texas Snowfall Blankets The Great Trinity Forest
If you blinked, you might have missed it. A brief moment in time before a morning dawn when the hangers on of summer meet old man winter for the first and last time. Here the late season wildflowers in...
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The Great Trinity Forest's White Rock Creek -- The Bois d'Arc Trail in...
There was a time when the barbed wire hung here enclosed the finest Swiss milking cows in all of Texas. The native wild rye grasses produced perennial champions of best tasting milk contests twenty...
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Texas Winter -- Predators of the Dallas Woods
Cold and austere, the post Christmas early morning light cast shadows on frozen ground so stiff it resembled old concrete. The previous evening's snow has muffled the urban noise of the city that has...
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Eagles in Dallas County's Trinity River Basin
Somewhere beyond the remains of an old brick factory and the town that carries the same name lies a unique corner of Dallas County where the Trinity River and tributaries engage in wholesale...
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Bike Rafting The Trinity River and Mountain Biking The Great Trinity Forest
Bikerafting through the Trinity River Standing Wave Whitewater Upper Canoe Bypass in Dallas, TexasOur specially crafted boats, by design, should have been somewhere north cutting a wake on the Arctic...
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Catching The White Trout Lily Bloom
Trout Lily (Erythronium albidum) pollinated by bee, Gateway Park, Great Trinity Forest in Dallas, TexasThe metamorphosis of the winter woods to that of spring begins on the smallest of scale. For a...
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Texas Buckeye Trail - The Annual Buckeye Grove Tour
The Trinity River Buckeye Grove bathed in sunset overlooking the Trinity River, Dallas, Texas March 2013One of the largest native flowering trees in Texas, the Texas Buckeye Tree Aesculus glabra var....
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Post Oak Preserve
Turkey Vulture leaving pre-dawn roost at Post Oak PreserveAwaiting the sunrise at Post Oak Preserve's lakeIt's the last weekend of a Texas winter. In these parts we call it Windter. An extraordinary...
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John Bunker Sands Wetland Center On The Trinity River
Adult male Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus; initiating a high speed 100+ mph hunting dive into the John Bunker Sands WetlandsWant to see some Bald Eagles? Read on. It all began began with the...
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Barred Owls -- Troubadours Of The Trees
The haunting rhythmic monkey like cries of the woods announce one thing, you are in Barred Owl country. The cool evening air of the Texas spring woods is often punctuated with these haunting hoots one...
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Dogwood Canyon and Cedar Ridge Preserve -- Hiking Into The Refugium
Climbing high in the tree tops of a century old Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) stand, Dogwood Canyon, Dallas County, TexasMaster Naturalist Bill Holston climbing a ladder into the DogwoodsIt sits...
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Preserving Ancient Dallas -- Help Protect Big Spring and Ancient Caddo Sites...
The pure crystal clear aquifer water of Historic Big Spring as it freely flows in Dallas, TexasWell, is it time to start worrying about the fate of Big Spring and the land around it? It's looking that...
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Exploring The Great Trinity Forest Trails -- Is that Michael McNair? Why Yes...
Cycling hero Michael McNair on his first bike ride back into the Great Trinity Forest, near Freedman's Town of Joppa, Dallas, Texas April 28, 2013The face of courage, victory and overcoming impossible...
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The Largest Wildflower Meadow in Dallas
Acres of marsh loving Clasping Coneflower (Rudbeckia amplexicaulis) as far as the eye can see in the Back Forty below Big Spring in the Great Trinity Forest; Dallas, TexasAcross a flooded slough from...
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Massive Fish Kill In Great Trinity Forest -- Joppa Preserve
Thousands of bloated and decaying fish at West Pond in the Great Trinity Forest, Joppa Preserve, June 8, 2013There was an old man from the Freedman's town of Joppa named Bad Leg Fred who once ran a...
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Hunting The Wetlands and Sloughs of the Trinity with the Swamp Coyotes
Patient coyotes of the Great Trinity Forest on a quiet and methodical stalk of their prey through the undisturbed wetlands of DallasIn the early part of the last century George Dorsey(1868–1931) from...
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