I’m somewhat disappointed to see Dallas Water Utilities flexing their muscle on a project at McCommas Bluff Preserve. Over the years that I have been mountain biking in the Great Trinity Forest I have always brushed off right-of-way clearings, alignments and heavy construction. Newly cleared access roads and water main excavations have always opened new …

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Trinity River Trail Bridge Dallas Texas What has been a sleepy old ranch road for over a century in South Dallas is now being transformed into Phase II of the Trinity Trail. Featuring a new bridge over the Trinity, the trail will serve as a backbone to connect north and south, east and west. Horseback …

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It’s officially a 103 degrees at 5pm on a Saturday in July. The thermometer I’m carrying says 113 degrees. Looking across over a mile of dry lake bed in South Dallas through the waves of heat a figure appears. Through the crinkles of heat it appears to be a human, running. As it approaches, the …

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Seems that the City of Dallas is trying to limit portage and scouting of the stream bank around the Dallas Wave Whitewater course. Recently the city has sent notice to a Dallas canoe outfitter, Canoe Dallas, that serves him effective trespass notice if he enters the Dallas Wave and Trinity Trestle area on the Trinity. …

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“Our city life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary …

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168 years ago July 12-15 1843 Sam Houston President of the Texas Republic and his men camped at White Rock Springs near the mouth of White Rock Creek and the Trinity River. He and his diplomatic corps stayed in the company of the Beeman family who called the fine bottom land home. Unlike most of …

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Roseate Spoonbill at Lemmon Lake Joppa Preserve Dallas, Texas Somewhat rare to see coastal birds such as the Roseate Spoonbill this far north in Texas. Exceptionally rare to see the Roseate Spoonbill inside the city limits of Dallas, within a large urban area.  Hunted to near extinction in the early 1900s, the Roseate Spoonbill population …

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Alligator at Little Lemmon Lake near Trinity River Dallas Texas May 2011 Quite a bit of buzz lately about a near record size alligator that was killed in Leon County halfway between Dallas and the Gulf of Mexico. Dallas attorney Levi McCathern killed a rather large alligator weighing in at a claimed 880 to 900 …

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White Rock Creek runs south from Dallas’ best-known land form, White Rock Lake. But for all the popularity of the old city reservoir, the creek that first had the name remains scarcely recognized. Once the water of the creek leaves the White Rock Lake Spillway in dramatic fashion it begins a slow and methodical march …

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Video above features coyotes howling(turn up volume) at McCommas Bluff Preserve on the Trinity River May 7, 2011 at 6pm in Dallas. The coyotes were on the opposite bank of the river and just inside the treeline.Although coyotes are considered a nocturnal animal it is interesting to see and hear them during daylight hours. In …

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Texas Parks and Wildlife announced in April 2011, a new addition to the network of state paddling trails, the Dallas Trinity Paddling Trail. Ten miles in length, the trail will take users from Sylvan Avenue to Loop 12 through the heart of Dallas and the Great Trinity Forest. The new canoe and paddling trail on …

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One of the largest Alligator Gar ever caught in Texas was landed on the Trinity River south of Dallas by Joseph Williams on April 14th. Texas Parks and Wildlife says that the “Garzilla” was caught alive, weighed and passed away despite attempts to revive it. This gar is a monster. One of the largest ever …

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