When a meandering prairie river runs through your city, should you straighten its curves into a glorified drainage ditch, force a for-profit whitewater park in one of its few natural places (and fail at it), allow businesses to decimate its forests, and have your park department generally ignore it?
Greenfest on the Green Belt will be held Sept. 27 at the Greenbelt on FM 455 below Ray Roberts Lake Dam. Photos courtesy of the Greenbelt Alliance of Denton County.
The Friends of Molly Hollar Wildscape will be part of the Arlington Conservation's Council's 'Fix It Green' demonstration tent during the 6th annual Ecofest Arlington on Sept. 20. Photos by Karl Thibodeaux.
Naturally McKinney wants to show families the path to green living. Above, the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the local green amenities located in McKinney. Courtesy of the McKinney Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The city of Dallas hosts its Green Fest on Sept. 20 on the Continental Avenue Bridge, which reopened as pedestrian friendly park in June. Photos courtesy of the city of Dallas.
Brandon and Susan Pollard, founders of the Texas Honeybee Guild, will be showing their bee pride during demonstrations in Dallas this week. Photo by Julie Thibodeaux.
Volunteers from the Sierra Club Inner City Outings group transplant a prairie foxglove at Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area. Courtesy of LLELA.
See our guide below to volunteer opportunities at 10 DFW-area nature centers.
Runners burst out of the starting gate for the Green Source DFW Run for the Environment 5K at Cedar Hill State Park Oct. 11. Photo by Movin' Pictures.
Oct. 6, 2014
