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Supermoon Over Dallas -- Tracking the Moonrise
The Supermoon as it rises through the thick humid air of a Texas June nightAround once a year the Moon is a whisker closer to Earth than the the other lunar cycles, setting up for what some advertise...
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The Rare Hexalectris Orchids of the Great Trinity Forest
A Crested Coralroot Orchid Hexalectris spicata in the Great Trinity Forest, June 2013The needles in the haystack. The drinking straw sized plants so obscure that many would walk right past them without...
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Painted Buntings at the mouth of Five Mile Creek -- Dowdy Ferry Southern...
The colorful male Painted Bunting Passerina ciris at Gateway Park Dowdy Ferry. Dallas, TexasThe New World French Explorers called this bird the PasserinNonpareil which loosely translated into English...
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Trinity Forest Golf Course, The Horse Park and the Toxic Trinity River Dump
This is a land grant born from the heavy cost of a revolutionary war to gain independence from a tyrannical despotic regime. A great American from the State of Tennessee paid the ultimate price to have...
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Swamp Hibiscus In The Wetland Marshes of the Trinity River Bottom
Native Texas Woolly Rose Mallow Hibiscus (Hibiscus lasiocarpus) in the Great Trinity Forest, Dallas, TexasSixty years ago, low income families were drawn to the land down here if you can believe it....
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Night Herons On The Trinity River
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron landing at a pond near the base of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Dallas, TexasYellow-Crowned Night HeronThunderstorms in the heat of a Texas summer are well known for turning...
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Big Boy Locomotive Stops In Dallas Great Trinity Forest
Union Pacific Big Boy 4018 along the railroad tracks near Rochester Park that serve as the western boundary of the Great Trinity ForestFor almost fifty years the one million pound plus Big Boy 4018...
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A Renewed Plan for a Trinity River Trail Downtown -- Into The Wild With The...
Coyotes hunting rabbits under the Continental Street Viaduct near Downtown Dallas, August 21, 2013It's a scene out of rural Texas. A coyote jump-hunting cottontail rabbits on a sun-soaked evening as...
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Fireworks Over Dallas -- Megafest Summer Finale Over The Trinity River
Firework shells exploding over the Trinity River September 1, 2013I suspect many a Dallas resident was bumped out of bed in the wee hours of September 1st 2013 by the rumbling concussion of six inch...
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Wood Storks On The Rebound -- The Rare Species Returns To The Great Trinity...
Wood Storks in Dallas, Texas, photo taken by James Cartwright, August 1936Some seventy seven years ago, a man named James "Jim" Cartwright took a small camera out fishing with him to an old bow on the...
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Roseate Spoonbills -- Annual Summer Pilgrimage To The Trinity River
Roseate Spoonbills and Egrets at Little Lemmon Lake, Dallas Texas, September 2013The coda of brief sketches on the Trinity usually involves a note about sustainability or conservation for the future....
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Natural Springs In Dallas -- Radiocarbon Dating One Of Texas Last Surviving...
One of the few natural springs left in Texas and one of just a handful on public property, Big Spring is quickly becoming a focal point of intense study in the Great Trinity Forest. So much is yet to...
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Packrafting The Trinity River Paddling Trail Out Your Own Backdoor -- From...
Floating the rain swollen Trinity River under the towering cottonwoods and pecans of the Great Trinity Forest just downstream of White Rock Creek in Dallas, Texas September 21, 2013Hurricane Ingrid...
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2013 Monarch Butterfly Migration
Monarch butterflies feeding and preparing for a night roost in Dallas Texas on the evening of October 8, 2013It's a sure sign of autumn and a rare sight for Dallas, a massing of over a hundred...
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Vaqueros of The Great Trinity Forest
Riding the Trinity River with the best brush cowboys in North Texas, Fall 2013The most obscure but rooted sense of place, by my reckoning in Dallas, must be here. Those who get the notion of the woods...
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Big Spring Plant Survey Flora Data and Discovering Texas Tree Ring Science
The former Jenkins Farm as it looked during tree clearing for the future Texas Horse Park. Pictured are Sean Fitzgerald with the orange helmet and Tim Dalbey who are extracting tree trunk samples from...
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Running Wild With Urban Feral Hogs In Dallas -- The Trinity River Forest Trails
A dozen feral pigs crossing a hike and bike trail in Dallas, Texas Trinity River Trail October 2013The vast expanse of territory inside the boundaries of Texas contains some of the most diverse...
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Trinity River Project Chain of Wetlands -- American White Pelicans and...
American White Pelican at the Trinity River Wetland Cells, Dallas Texas, November 2013 As the days grow shorter and the temperature begins to drop the chain of wetland cells in South Dallas often host...
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Honey Springs on the Trinity River -- Off The Beaten Path
Honey Springs Branch, Historic Joppa Freedman's Community, Dallas, TexasThe big rambling farmhouses that once commanded the views of this place were the focal points of now long gone pioneer family...
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Roseate Spoonbills -- Annual Summer Pilgrimage To The Trinity River
Roseate Spoonbills and Egrets at Little Lemmon Lake, Dallas Texas, September 2013The coda of brief sketches on the Trinity usually involves a note about sustainability or conservation for the future....
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