February’s meeting will be a field trip to Gateway Park & Post Oak Preserve. Tim Dalbey will be guiding us around Gateway Park to see remnant prairies on the bluff tops from 10am-12pm (maybe longer if people are enjoying hiking the bluffs) and Post Oak Preserve to see the “carpet” of dog-toothed violets (often called trout lilies) from 12-2pm. Bring water and snacks for your trip and lunch as well as appropriate footwear. There will be some hiking up and down hills on natural foot paths, some with loose gravel. We will be accessing a bluff top to the south and possibly north, and maybe some other areas if there is time.
Post Oak Preserve is a Dallas County Park and Open Space (DCPOS) preserve. It is across from the DISD Environmental Center. The reason to go here is to see the “carpet” of dog-toothed violets (often called trout lilies) that should be out at this time and with Corralrhiza maculata (coralroot) orchids.
Park and meet at in the gravel parking lot at the soccer fields on west side Jim Miller Road before the entrance to Grover C Keeton Golf Course. If you’ll be joining us for the Post Oak Preserve, drive south on Jim Miller to Hwy 175, past I-635, exit for Environmental Way and Bowers Road.
Addresses if you need for navigation purposes:
Keeton Golf Course: 2323 North Jim Miller Road, Dallas, TX 75227
Dallas Environmental Center: 1600 Bowers Road, Seagoville, TX 75159
Gateway Park & Post Oak Preserve
Keeton Golf Course: 2323 North Jim Miller Road, Dallas;
Dallas Environmental Center: 1600 Bowers Road, Seagoville,
TX
United States