December 21, 2010

Year-end Round-up

1) 2010: A year to remember

2) Volunteers of note

3) Prairie Fest UPDATE

4) Daily dose of green

5) Beware the Tree-huggers!

6) Prairie Proverb

December 1, 2010

1) Field Report

2) Prairie Fest: By hook or by crook

3) Wildflower of the Moment

4) Ladies' Tresses Orchids

5) Critter Report

Thanksgiving Day:

November 25, 2010

Thanks for the Trout Lilies whose hopeful blooms remind that spring will indeed come again for them and for us

thanks for the Wild Turkeys that appear on Spring mornings to forage on seeds and insects by day and roost in the trees by night -

thanks for the people who actually walk the prairie hills and even more for those who never go but love them just for existing -

November 1, 2010

1) Vote the Environment!

2) The last Prairie Fest?

3) Field report

4) Wildflower of the moment: Aster

5) Birding news

6) Witchey Tree: R.I.P.

7) FOTHNA website makeover

8) Prairie Proverb

PRAIRIE NOTES #46

October 1, 2010

1) Cool... Clear... Waters of September

2) Prairie Fest wins "Best of" award

3) Parks-Library merger is dead

4) Flower of the moment: Side-oats Grama

5) Critter report 6) Fossils on the prairie

7) Close encounter of the Owl kind

8) Magic in the rain

September 1, 2010

1) August Malaise

2) Urgent Action Alert!

3) Flower of the Moment: Wand Milkweed

4) Wildlife Report

5) Monster Bash

6) God & Lawn Care

7) Adventures in Green Marketing

8) Indian Summer Notebook

9) FOTHNA website update

10) Wise Words

August 1, 2010

1) Weather-wise, July 2010 has been a schizophrenic month at THNA. It started out unusually wet and tropical before returning to normal dryness. Even more unusual, occasional thunderstorms persisted through the end of the month. This is good news to prairie grass, as the long, hot march through August begins.

July 1, 2010

Imagine yourself on a lonely beach... far from the madding crowd. Nah, forget that daydream. Not this year anyway.

If you are like me, summer vacation 2010 (so far) is more like a staycation. But with Tandy Hills Natural Area just a few steps from my front door, I can escape to prairie paradise in the time it takes to lace up my hiking boots.

Prairie Notes #42

June 1, 2010

Field Report

A little rain would be nice. Summer Solstice 2010 is still three weeks away but North Texas is already dry. With only .86" of rainfall in May (4.85" is normal), many of the mid-Spring wildflowers yielded the stage early to deeper-rooted prairie grasses.

Tandy Hills Semicentennial

Prairie Notes: Special Edition

April 22, 2010

On April 22, 1960, the Fort Worth City Council led by, Mayor Thomas A. McCann, agreed to purchase the land now known as Tandy Hills Natural Area.

May 28, 2010

By several measurements the 2010 Prairie Fest was the most successful one yet. Most importantly, a successful Fest helps us achieve our purpose:

To facilitate use of Tandy Hills Natural Area as an education and recreation resource for experiencing and understanding the natural environment of predevelopment Fort Worth.

To increase awareness of the importance of protecting and preserving natural areas.

March 17, 2010

For weeks now I've been feeling like an expectant father, pacing the halls of Tandy Hills Natural Area, waiting for Mother Nature to deliver Spring 2010. Trout Lilies were nice but, the "harbingers of Spring" have all but left the building, their trout-speckled leaves fading into the big green of April.

March 11, 2010

1) Prairie Fest needs YOU!

2) Sponsor Shout Out x 2!

3) Tandy Hills in bloom

March 4, 2010

1) Signs of Spring

2) You owe your life to grass

3) Cedar Fever up close and personal

4) The last Trout Lily walk of 2010

5) Message in a seed pod

February 11, 2010

Tandy Hills Natural Area is very much alive in the dead of Winter! The sound of snow falling and snow birds flying are filling the air above Tandy Hills Natural Area with beautiful music.