by Amy Martin (c) for Autumn Equinox 2009 It was one of those brilliant autumn in days North Texas. The strident summer Sun had mellowed to just the right brightness, yet it was still t-shirt […]
East Texan spins prairie wisdom on grassland tour
By Amy Martin 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 […]
North Texas Wild: Chisholm Trail Park preserves Fort Worth prairie parcel
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 By Amy Martin Fort Worth has been called the Queen of the […]
North Texas Wild: Local conservationists are bringing back the Blackland Prairie
A prairie remnant at Winfrey Point overlooking White Rock Lake in Dallas. Photo by Sean Fitzgerald. By Amy Martin Nov. 24, 2015Stand sometime in the midst of a typical Texas pasture. Everything is contained, with […]
Foolish Faith
by Amy Martin (c) It’s the very definition of insanity, you know, to do something over and again and expect that somehow next time will be different. Yet I don’t feel insane, I feel blissful. […]
And Then You Remember Why
by Amy Martin (c) Hardly a day goes by that don’t I wonder why I do this, or that I don’t worry that if another responsibility or expense is laid on me that I’ll just […]
The Way the Day Unfolds, part 3 of 4 – Patience & Prairie
by Amy Martin (c) The East Flank remained meadow-like for a while. By the time we got there 50 years later, the cedars had reduced the long meadow into a series of patches and in […]
The Way the Day Unfolds, part 2 of 4 – Invasion of the Cedars
by Amy Martin (c) Our search for grasses takes us by jeep into the Back 40, to the East Flank. On this side of the wet-weather Cross Creek that divides the 43 acres, the cedar […]
