GSDFW reporter Amy Martin shares the thrill of becoming a certified nature expert. An intro to the program will be held Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Dallas. Photo by Amy Martin.
Oct. 16, 2019
Texas Parks and Wildlife along with North Texas chapters of the Texas Master Naturalist Program will host the 2019 Conference in Rockwall. Photos courtesy of the North Texas Master Naturalist Chapter.
Aug. 27, 2019
Disneyland for nature nerds is coming to North Texas.
A sun dagger crosses an ancient turtle shield pictograph on Winter Solstice in Concho County. Photo by Steve Schiwetz.
Jan. 9, 2019
The two buffalo stand like statues along the ranch road to the Paint Rock pictographs. We idle next to the two huge pasture pets, so still we can hear their deep rumbly breathing — a good omen for Winter Solstice.
People & Prairies is a three-part series highlighting people making a difference in prairie preservation.
In this second installment, we meet a philosophical cattle rancher in Hopkins County. Photos by Stalin SM.
July 24, 2018
Karl Ebel doesn’t look much like a Taoist philosopher. Tall and lanky, with a deep drawl that slows time, his jeans are torn and dirty, skin is tanned to umber, and his shredded leather boots sport manure.
People & Prairies: This three-part series highlights people making a difference in prairie preservation. Photo by Amy Martin.
In this first installment, we meet a woman whose passion for Texas and its history saved a prairie from urban encroachment.
July 16, 2018
Green Source DFW reporter Amy Martin peruses the prairie remnant at Chisholm Trail Community Park in Fort Worth. Photo by Scooter Smith.
June 18, 2018
The mountain lion is one of five native cats under threat in Texas. Photos courtesy of Texas Native Cats.
May 2, 2018
A Dallas woman wants to raise awareness about Texas' native cats – not the domestic felines we know and love as pets but the wild kind, native to to the Lone Star State. There are five: the big cats - jaguar and mountain lion - (also called cougars or pumas), and the smaller cats - bobcat, ocelot and jaguarundi.
