Amy Martin

The Native Prairies Association of Texas aims to raise $50,000 to buy the Paul Mathews Prairie in Hunt County. Photos courtesy of NPAT.

Sept. 7, 2017

North Texas will experience about 80 percent coverage on Aug. 21, during the first total solar eclipse in the U.S. mainland since 1979. 

Aug. 15, 2017

Total solar eclipses are not rare. Most calendar years have two solar eclipses, according to TimeandDate.com. But the one happening on Monday is the first visible in the United States in nearly 40 years.

Wildflowers line the park road at Cedar Hill State Park in Cedar Hill. Courtesy of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

If you think GSDFW rabbit stories are multiplying, Amy did a story on a wild rabbit rescue group called Rabbit Rescue in April. ​The following article is about the Bunny Burrow, a Fort Worth-based nonprofit that focuses on rescuing domestic pet rabbits in North Texas. Pictured: Eden and Sawyer. Photos courtesy of the Bunny Burrow.

GreenSourceDFW.org and Natural Awakenings DFW Edition are partnering in a series called Green Neighborhoods. Over the coming months, we will be exploring the eco-friendly neighborhoods in North Texas with Green Source DFW reporter Amy Martin as our guide. Amy will show readers those communities where green retail, green venues and green folks intersect. If there’s a green neighborhood we should know about, email Julie@GreenSourceDFW.org!

June 7, 2017

A vandal was stopped when neighbors noticed he was cutting up a park tree for firewood in the Dixon Branch Greenbelt last month. Photos by Amy Martin and Scooter Smith.

April 25, 2017

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way." - William Blake

In 2016, Wild Rescue rehabbed over a thousand cottontails. Photos courtesy of Wild Rescue unless otherwise noted.

April 11, 2017

When it rains, it pours… bunnies. Spring deluges wash young cottontails out of their nests. Often found suffering from hyperthermia or gravely battered, they must be rushed to treatment if to survive, then raised to adulthood and released. 

Oddfellows in the Bishop Arts neighborhood features local and organic ingredients.

April 5, 2017

This is the second installment of a new series from GreenSourceDFW.org and Natural Awakenings DFW. Over the coming months, we will be exploring the eco-friendly neighborhoods in North Texas with Green Source DFW reporter Amy Martin as our guide. If there’s a green neighborhood we should know about, email Julie@GreenSourceDFW.org.

D Magazine has invited experts to discuss returning the Dallas Trinity River corridor back to its natural landscape. Above, wading birds in the Great Trinity Forest. Photo courtesy of Ben Sandifer/DallasTrinityTrails.blogspot.com.

Feb. 27, 2017

The 200-acre Spring Creek Forest Preserve features ancient trees, fossils and rich plant life.

Feb. 8, 2017

The towering aged trees along Spring Creek are visible to thousands of people from the parking lots of the nearby big box sports store, water park, convention center and a handful of schools. Few pay attention. Just another riparian corridor spared from development by being too rugged or flood-prone. 

This is a first in a series about eco-friendly neighborhoods in North Texas.​ Pictured, great egret at White Rock Lake. Photo by Chris Jackson, DFWUrbanWildlife.com.

Jan. 2, 2017