Timber Press has contracted Amy Martin to write Wild Dallas-Fort Worth: Explore the Amazing Nature of North Texas. The book will cover Collin, Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant counties and will feature over 350 images from area photographers. […]
Urban storm water poses threat to creeks, rivers
The Tarrant Regional Water District’s Fort Worth campus demonstrates eight major green stormwater mitigation methods, including a bioswale, a raingarden, rainwater cisterns, permeable surfaces and a stormwater wetland. Courtesy of TRWD. By Amy Martin May 25, 2021 […]
The Watershed We Call Home
Photo by Daniel Koglin. by Amy Martin “A river is a river… always changing and always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as it rubs […]
Winter Solstice: The Pause at the Bottom of the Breath
Winter Solstice: The Pause at the Bottom of the Breath by Amy Martin (c) Twenty-eight years ago. Twenty-eight years ago, I looked in, I looked into water so deep it lost light – the transparent […]
John Lennon: 40 Years Later
John Lennon, as pictured in an advertisement for Imagine from Billboard, 18 September 1971. Peter Fordham by Amy Martin Death hurts not the victim but those who remain behind. It is the spaces in […]
North Texas paddling trail receives national designation
Original post at: https://greensourcedfw.org/articles/north-texas-paddling-trail-receives-national-designation By Amy Martin Dec. 2, 2020 The Trinity River binds us. It is the fluid webbing that holds North Texas together. We live in its watershed and every drop of rain […]
Guide to Trinity River Paddling Trail
Original post at: https://greensourcedfw.org/articles/trinity-river-paddling-guide By Amy Martin Dec. 3, 2020 With the development of the Trinity River Paddling Trail and its recent inclusion in the National Park Service as a National Recreation Trail, the kayak and canoe community in […]
Taking Leave of Life
by Amy Martin . The last time I spoke with Memaw, she was in the intensive care unit. Peering out from the tangle of tubes, monitors and IV’s, her eyes were those of a frightened […]
Palo Pinto Mts State Park construction to start this year
by Amy Martin Sept. 16, 2020 Original post at https://www.greensourcedfw.org/articles/palo-pinto-mts-state-park-construction-start-year From my vantage point high on the ridge, the waters of rock-rimmed Tucker Lake are clear and still. Flameleaf sumacs along the dam hint of […]
Bill Holston: segregation, legal life, human rights, & religion
by Amy Martin Bill Holston is well known in North Texas as the lawyer who serves as executive director for Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI). We sat down for a long and fascinating […]
poem: The Joy of Sweat
by Amy Martin Us two-legged mammals, along with horses and bears, all have bodies covered with hair. To cool we have sweat glands called eccrine, pumps in our skin that dispense salty brine. But […]
