The Buckeye Trail

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The Trail and Neighborhood

In his journey through Texas in 1856, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted admired the “luxuriant confusion” of the interlaced branches and vines from the immense trees of the Trinity River bottomlands.  It has been left to us, the neighbors, hikers, politicians, conservationists, and advocates, to reconcile the complexity and conflict embedded in this ecosystem.

A group of aspiring Master Naturalists undertook this challenge through an assigned project to increase the engagement of the South Dallas Ideal+Bonton neighborhood with the adjoining Ned and Genie Fritz Buckeye Trail.

We didn’t embark on this assignment alone.  We stood on the shoulders of those who blazed the trails of bottomland forest preservation and neighborhood revival.  Like any good naturalist, we share our historical and botanical insights into this “luxuriant confusion'” and the Indigenous peoples who first occupied it.  But best of all, we share the insights, in their own powerful voices, from generations of Ideal residents from whom we learned the most important lessons:  the power of community and the simple everyday pleasures of nature around us.

An Invitation

After grappling with the urban ecosystem of Bexar Street and the Buckeye Trail, we invite you to immerse yourself in nature’s simple pleasures; listen to the “cheer, cheer, cheer” of the cardinals and the chorus of other trills, twitters, chirps, and hoots as you bathe in the forest; be present, breathe deeply, with heart open; heal your relationship with the earth; advocate for environmental justice; heed the wisdom of weathered naturalists; acknowledge the Indigenous peoples who lived in our region; celebrate community; and savor the memories of our elders.   

 

 

 

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Board Meetings are open to all members and to the public. Please contact the Vice President at vicepresident@ntmn.org for meeting details if you want to...
December 4, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Green Shoots:  Waking Up to a Natural Wisdom  (Iceland Fishing Village) “To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand . . . everything...
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center || 1st Saturday Walk & Talk Bird Tour (AT) Saturday, December 7, 2024  ||  7:30am – 9:30am Join us as...
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center || 1st Saturday Bird Walk (AT) Saturday, December 7, 2024  || 8:30am – 9:30am  CT Description:  A guided bird walk. It...
Heard Museum || 1st Saturday Guided Trails  (AT) Saturday, December 7, 2024  ||  9:30am – -10:30am CT Experience the ecology, geology, flora and fauna of...
Heard Museum || 2nd Saturday Bird Walk (AT) Saturday, December 14, 2024  |  8am-9:30am CT 2nd Saturday Bird Walks are intended to help beginning and...
TMN-Elm Fork Chapter || 2nd Saturday Trail Walk at Furneaux Creek (AT) Saturday, December 14, 2024   8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Description: Fun for all...
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center || Guided Tree ID Walk (AT) Saturday, December 14, 2024  || 10am– 11:30am   CT Description: Join us for a guided tree...
Heard Museum || 3rd Thursday Bird Walk (AT) Saturday, December 19, 2024  |  8am – 9:30am CT 3rd Thursday Bird Walks in the Heard Wildlife...
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center || 3rd Saturday Guided Boardwalk Tour (AT) Saturday, December 21, 2024 ||  9:00 AM – 10:30 AM    CT   As...
January 1, 2025    
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Welcome the New Year by strolling with friends on a small-group guided walk along the creek and through the massive trees of Spring Creek Forest...
January 1, 2025    
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Chapter Meeting Placeholder. A further description monthly meeting will appear here as the scheduled meeting draws near. Join us in north Dallas at Dallas College...
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center || 1st Saturday Walk & Talk Bird Tour (AT) Saturday, January 4, 2025  ||  7:30am – 9:30am Description:  Join us...
Heard Museum || 1st Saturday Guided Trails  (AT) Saturday, January 4, 2025  ||  9:30am – -10:30am CT Experience the ecology, geology, flora and fauna of...
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