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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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Texas Fall Color On Dallas Lower White Rock Creek Escarpment
The most unused park benches with the best view in all the City of Dallas on Piedmont Ridge overlooking White Rock Creek and the Trinity River ValleyIf there were ever an an award for the most unused...
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Riverbend Preserve -- 100th Anniversary of Trinity River Lock and Dam #4
The howling obscenities of coyotes are some of the only sounds heard at this distant place. Far removed from the modern world, exploring this part of the Trinity in Dallas County shows the river in the...
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Great Trinity Forest In Deep Freeze -- Winter Forecasting With Persimmons
Thick ice fog gathers at dawn along the Lower Chain of WetlandsWinter comes a little early to North Texas in 2013. A cold winter ahead maybe? The stories of West Nile Virus carrying mosquitoes are...
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The Wild Palm Trees Of Dallas County -- Relics From The Last Ice Age?
Sabal Minor Palms in Dallas County TexasIt is most likely one of the farthest northwestern natural palm tree colonies in North America. Perhaps a remnant holdout of a long ago time when glaciers...
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Ray Porter
Dallasite and endurance mountain biker Ray Porter overlooking the Trinity River from the Trinity River Trail bridge near the Audubon Center, 2013Who is the best mountain biker you ever saw.Ray Porter...
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Northern Shovelers in the Lower Chain of Wetlands on the Trinity River
A Northern Shoveler drake in full breeding plumage at Wetland Cell G, Lower Chain of Wetlands, Dallas, TexasThe shortest days of the year in North Texas usually signal the peak residency times of...
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Trinity Forest Golf Course Construction Visible in Google Earth
The Trinity Forest Golf Course as seen from Google EarthAs details of the Trinity Forest Golf course slowly take shape, so does the physical golf course layout. The Greek sigma shaped section on the...
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Diving Ducks In the Great Trinity Forest and Trinity River
Diving Ducks -- Lesser Scaups and a Canvasback in the Lower Chain of WetlandsThe caravan of rafting ducks on Texas water in the winter is a concentration of waterfowl from across the continent. Wary of...
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Big Spring In The Snow -- Dallas Great Trinity Forest
The Great Trinity Forest blanketed by snow, the warmth of Big Spring protects the plants from the bitter coldThe rarity of a blanketing snow event in Dallas transforms the fields and woods of the Great...
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Texas Trout Lilies Abuzz
A Trout Lily Erythronium albidum in full bloom, Dallas, Texas February 2014The labors of spring begin anew in the smallest and most subtle of ways in North Texas. The dull and drab landscapes of the...
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Goat Island Preserve
It's just far enough, 5 minutes out of the city limits and five river miles downstream. Where the only floatsam trash one is likely to encounter is that of errant old battered Green Winged Teal decoys...
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Texas Buckeye Trail Hikes For 2014
The exquisite bloom of a Texas Buckeye in the Great Trinity Forest Dallas TexasThe Texas Buckeye Tree Aesculus glabra var. arguta makes for one of the earliest and best shows of color in the state. The...
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McCommas Bluff Preserve -- Up Elam Creek Without A Paddle
Elam Spring as it flows over native Austin Chalk limestone at the former site of Camp Woodland Springs in Dallas, TexasIt's just the other side of nowhere goes the old country song. A place that we as...
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Texas Fall Color On Dallas Lower White Rock Creek Escarpment
The most unused park benches with the best view in all the City of Dallas on Piedmont Ridge overlooking White Rock Creek and the Trinity River ValleyIf there were ever an an award for the most unused...
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Big Spring Bur Oak Becomes Official Texas Historic Tree
Under the ancient Bur Oak on March 29, 2013 in the Great Trinity Forest with the complete lineage of title ownership represented at Big Spring Billy Ray Pemberton; Pemberton Family (1880-2004), City of...
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Texas Bluebonnets and Early Spring Wildflowers In The Great Trinity Forest
The unpaved, just off the beaten paths along the Trinity River in early spring highlight nature in the raw to those who venture into it. They are places of profound beauty and wonder that so very few...
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Paint The Trinity a Bloody Red With Indian Paintbrush
A carpet of red Indian Paintbrush at McCommas Bluff PreserveCrepuscular is a term seldom used in common conversation. It's a time of day around dawn or dusk when certain animals get out and roam...
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White Faced Ibis and Migrating Wading Birds at Joppa Preserve
The Texas White Faced Ibis a State Threatened Species in Dallas, Texas May 23, 2014Certain shorebird and wading bird species are the first push of migratory Central and South American birds through the...
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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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