Earth Day Celebration - Arlington
Earth Day
Join River Legacy Living Science Center as we celebrate Earth Day with nature walks, story times, crafts, activities and more. Fun for the whole family.
FREE
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Tarrant County Earth Day Celebration - Fort Worth
Come celebrate Earth Day early with us on Thursday, April 19th! Our celebration features a variety of informational booths related to Earth Day, as well as live entertainment.
Tarrant County Public Health Building, 1101 South Main at Rosedale.
Free admission and parking. Open to the public.
Dan Lepinski's "Solar Shuttle" solar trailer will provide 100% solar electricity for the event sound stage.
Celebrate Nature - McKinney
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Saturday, April 14, 2012 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate the start of spring with family and friends and “leave no one inside” at our new and improved one-day outdoor spring festival – “Celebrate Nature.” We will continue to feature “green” vendors as well as other vendors who want to support nature and The Heard, live concerts, interactive animal presentations, kids’ activities, guided trail tours, and canoe/kayak demonstrations. Guests will also enjoy our “Live Animals of the World” and “Animal Superheroes” exhibits, and the butterfly garden. |
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Grand Prairie Farmers Market + Main Street Festival - Grand Prairie
We’re closing Main Street for good old fashioned fun at Farmers Market. Festival includes games, rides, bands, food, bounce houses, face painters, balloon artists, entertainment and arts and crafts. Admission and parking are free.
Food, drink, art, crafts, gifts and Farmers Market wares available for purchase. Tickets to the 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. showing of the Uptown Theater’s “A Musical Tribute to Roy Rogers starring Roy Rogers Jr. and Dustin Rogers” available for purchase in advance online at www.uptowntheatergp.com for $30-$35 each.
More Farmers Market info: www.gptx.org/farmersmarket or call 972-237-4599.
Master Composter Class - 4/12 to 4/14 - Grand Prairie
The next Master Composter training will be held April 12-14, 2012. The training – which includes both classroom and "hands-on" instruction – will take place at city facilities and the Kirby Creek Nature Center’s Exhibition Garden. You may reserve a place by signing up online.
Spring 2012 Master Composter Class Schedule:
6-9 p.m. Thursday, April 12
6-9 p.m. Friday, April 13
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, April 14
The $25 Grand Prairie resident registration fee and $40 non-Grand Prairie resident registration fee includes a compost thermometer, the Rodale Book of Composting, excerpts from the Green Guide to YardCare booklet, and lunch on Saturday, April 14.
Grand Prairie is one of the few cities in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area that offers the course. Anyone interested in achieving a sustainable backyard lifestyle will benefit from composter training – whether they choose to certify or not.
Certification Requirements
Full Moon Paddle - Fort Worth
Come and join us for a different type of Canoe Tour in the evening hours. This program will present new opportunities like hearing beavers slap the water with their tails and seeing other wildlife like deer and raccoon. Canoes, paddles and lifejackets are provided.
Children must be 5 years or older. Parents must sign a liability waiver for minor children. Some previous experience recommended. Registration ends preceding Tuesday or when filled.
Maximum - 12 participants.
Meet at Back Gate.
Pre-registration required.
$20 (includes admission fee)/MEMBERS $15.
Life on the Prairie, Prairie Geology - Fort Worth
The Great Plains are located on the westernmost portion of the vast North American Interior Plains.
They were covered by a shallow inland sea called the Western Interior Seaway. However, the seaway had begun to recede; leaving behind thick marine deposits and a relatively flat terrain where the seaway had once flowed.
We will see how this set the stage for what became the Nature Center.
Short slide presentation and walk. Part 2 of the Life on the Prairie series.
$5 (with paid admission)/MEMBERS FREE.
Life on the Prairie, Prairie Ecology - Fort Worth
Prairies are part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome in which grasses, herbs,
and shrubs, rather than trees, are the dominant vegetation type.
Come with us as we explore, photograph and/or sketch this unique habitat.
Photo presentation followed by a walk.
Part 1 of the Life on the Prairie series.
$5 (with paid admission)/MEMBERS FREE.
Life on the Prairie, Prairie Management - Fort Worth
The management of the prairie is critically important for the survival of the prairie ecosystem today.
Vast landscape and ecological changes and cessation of natural processes have made it necessary for humans to apply, to the best of their knowledge, management practices that may have occurred naturally.
It is speculated that humankind has been managing the prairie for thousands of years. Native Americans would routinely burn the prairie for easy nomadic passage and to bring bison to the newly greening
prairie.
Part 3 of the Life on the Prairie series.
$5 (with paid admission)/MEMBERS FREE.
Canoe Fest - Fort Worth
Enjoy a bit of canoeing/kayaking on your own on the quiet waters around Greer Island.
Canoes/kayaks, paddles and lifejackets provided.
Children in canoes must be 5 years or older and accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Kayakers must be at least 14 years old and accompanied by their guardian, otherwise at least 18 years old. Parents must sign a liability waiver for minor children. No registration needed.
First come-first served. Greer Island gate will open at 11 a.m.
Meet at Greer Island. $5 (with paid admission)/MEMBERS $3.
http://www.fwnaturecenter.org/