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A Wild DFW Hike with Amy Martin
October 5 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
We’ll re-create the adventure chapter on Sheri Capehart Nature Preserve from “Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth” (https://Wild-DFW.com/) with members of Friends of Sheri Capehart Nature Preserve. You’ve read about Eastern Cross Timbers in Wild DFW, now experience the finest remnant of it in North Texas. The geology chapter of Wild DFW talks extensively about how our tilted layers of bedrock shape the landscape. Now walk that as you explore a cuesta limestone formation.
A journalist and writer for over 40 years, Amy Martin is the author of “Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth” (Wild-DFW.com), and “Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant” (Itchy.biz). She is currently senior features writer for Green Source DFW (GreenSourceDFW.org). Her current project is Ned Fritz Legacy (NedFritz.com), a biographical website of Ned Fritz, Texas’ most famous environmentalist. For twelve years, she managed wildlife habitat rehabilitation on a private nature preserve in northeast Texas, including converting fifteen acres of pasture into tallgrass prairie. Find her writings at https://moonlady.com/.
We might post some observations to iNaturalist as Amy points out some of the places and species that she encountered during the walk that she wrote about for the book.