At the January 2025 Executive Committee meeting, we were honored to recognize two of our long-serving volunteers, Secretary Ginny Wilcox and Treasurer Marvin Rogers. Award presented by Society President, David Parrish. Ginny Wilcox – Outstanding Service to Spring Creek Preserve Ginny Wilcox has been Secretary of the Executive Committee...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek Forest Preserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) Contact the Society: springcreekforestpreservation@gmail.com Honoring Dana Wilson for Outstanding Service to Spring Creek Preserve At the holiday party on December 3, the Society’s Executive Committee was honored to award Dana Wilson for...
At the holiday party on December 3, the Society’s Executive Committee was honored to award Dana Wilson for her Outstanding Service to Spring Creek Preserve. Since 2001 when she completed her training for the North Texas Master Naturalist organization, she has always worked tirelessly toward making the Preserve a better place. She has been a...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org)Contact the Society: springcreekforestpreservation@gmail.com December Events 2024 – Holiday Party for Members Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Location: 5806 Firecrest Drive, Garland, TX Time: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. No speaker in...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org)Contact the Society: springcreekforestpreservation@gmail.com November Events 2024 – Speaker Series: Jake Poinsett – Wintering Sparrows of North Texas Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Meeting Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Location: ...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek Forest Preserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) Contact the Society: springcreekforestpreservation@gmail.com Dallas County Parks and Open Space - Master Plan Approved Two Years of Planning - September 3, 2024 - At the regular meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners...
September 3, 2024 was a big day for Dallas County Parks & Open Space (DCOS). During the regular meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court, the Dallas County Open Space Master Plan, two years in the making, was officially accepted by the commissioners. The previous plan was created over 30 years ago. Lenny Hughes of Halff Associates,...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek Forest Educational and Service Activities (https://springcreekforest.org) North Texas Giving Day This year, on Thursday, September 19, Preservation Society for Spring Creek Forest is participating in Communities Foundation of Texas' North Texas Giving Day, an online giving extravaganza for...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) New Outreach Materials – Thanks to a Grant from North Texas Master Naturalist Thanks to a very generous grant from the North Texas Master Naturalists, the Society has a brand new logo and fabulous outreach materials such as event flags,...
Excerpted from the Dallas Morning News, August 5, 2024 Urban wildlife comes alive as Dallas-Fort Worth goes to sleep By Jordan Chapman As urban sprawl continues, animals that once roamed in the daylight have been forced to come out at night, researchers say. Photo: Sam Kieschnick, of the Texas Department of Wildlife, points out the...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) Did you notice your Society's new logo? It represents our creek, our prairie, and the oak trees in our forest, We hope you like it. Events – July, August In July, and August, we take a break from our usual activities...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek Forest Preserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) Yes, it’s your Society with a cool new logo! It represents our creek, our prairie, and the oak trees in our forest, We hope you like it. Events – June, July, August In June, July, and August, we take a break from our...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) See below for photos of the spectacular wildflower bloom on the Prairie at 1787 Holford Road. City Nature Challenge 2024 Observe species, photograph, post to iNaturalist, help DFW win Most observations for 2024. We want to beat...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) Volunteers – We can’t do it without you! The habitat management crew for the Preservation Society takes great pride in the strides we've made managing invasive species and woody encroachment on the prairies. Individual volunteers, small...
Anne Weary grew up living in what was then a very rural part of Garland. Her father owned quite a bit of land along Holford Road between Arapaho Road and what is now George Bush Tollway. She rode her horse, they had a few cattle, and their historic house had been built in 1936. She loved to draw the creek, forest and prairie adjacent to their...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) March 2024 Join a Guided Walk and Celebrate OUR Old Growth Forest! Spring Creek Forest Preserve is honored to join the national Old Growth Forest Network (OGFN). We are only the second forest in Texas honored to become a member. According to...
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2024 Time 1:00 – 1:45 p.m. Location: 1770 Holford Road This event was a first-of-its-kind distinction. Representatives from the Old-Growth Forest Network (OGFN) officially inducted the Spring Creek Forest Preserve into the national network which celebrates our oldest protected and publicly accessible forests. In the...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) February 2024 Speaker Series – Carol Garrison – Aquatic Macro Invertebrates Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Location: Zoom Riparian areas like Spring Creek Forest Preserve are hosts to an amazing variety of aquatic...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) Have you checked out the new look on our web site – springcreekforest.org Not only a new look, but we also finally have online payment for membership or donation with credit or debit cards, or your PayPal account. Or, you can still...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) New look to our web site – springcreekforest.org Not only a new look, but we also finally have online payment for membership or donation with credit or debit cards, or your PayPal account. Or, you can still download a membership form...
Texas Master Naturalists Share Their Talents with Spring Creek Forest Preserve On November 4, 2023, Spring Creek Forest Preserve in Garland received the gift of 25 energetic North Texas Master Naturalists. Each volunteer gave three hours of volunteering to remove woody trees and shrubs encroaching on the beautiful limestone prairie, remove...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) November 2023 Speaker Series – Tyler Hedlund speaks on Orthoptera – Hopping Across North America - grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets of North America Date: November 7, 2023 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Location: Zoom Come learn about...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek Forest Preserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) October 2023: Both the Speaker Series and the Sunday Nature Walk – Kimberlie Sasan, All about Galls Galls are odd growths on trees or bushes. The gall is an example of a plant-animal relationship. More than 2,000 types of insects and other...
Preservation Society for Spring Creek ForestPreserve, Educate, Collaborate (https://springcreekforest.org) September 2023: Speaker Series – Janet Smith, Sex in the Garden Date: September 5, 2023 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Location: Zoom Janet will talk to us about sex in the garden. But this is about pollination, so it is open to all and totally...