A Deep Dive into North Texas Ecotone & its Natural Wonders

Sunday, January 25 – 3 to 4:15 pm
arrive at 2:30 pm

Location: North Haven Gardens https://nhg.com/
7700 Northaven Rd, Dallas, TX 75230
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1bPAZTAujqtqWgqEA

Greater Dallas Organic Gardening Club
https://www.gdogc.org/

Amy Martin, author of Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth (https://Wild-DFW.com), will make you curious about what’s beneath your feet. Why is North Texas an epic ecotone? What is the Great Trinity Forest the easternmost example of? How do tilted layers of bedrock shape our three ecoregions, foster a plethora of soil types, and lead to our plant and wildlife diversity. And why did they tilt?

Learn of places to experience these tenets firsthand from the book’s 25 hiking adventures. Enjoy astounding photography by skilled naturalists of hardwood bottomland forests and Eastern Cross Timbers, soaring limestone escarpments, lush wetlands, and rare remnants of Blackland and Fort Worth Prairies. Get to know a diverse community of volunteers working for nature. Follow Wild DFW on Facebook and Instagram.

Photo by Vijay Tanwar that shows where Austin Chalk meets Eagle Ford Shale.