Nov. 19 Sun at 2 to 4 pm
8032 Old Granbury Rd, Crowley, TX 76036
Walk at Sid Richardson Tract followed by lunch talk and discussion at nearby picnic pavilion.

Native Prairies Association of Texas, Fort Worth chapter 

Re-create the prairie hike from the Sid Richardson Tract chapter of Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth with author Amy Martin. Along with her from the chapter will be Kate Morgan, sitting in for Suzanne Tuttle, and Jo Ann Collins of Native Prairies Association of Texas’ Fort Worth chapter and NPAT’s North Texas Director of Outreach and Stewardship, Carly Aulicky (tentative).

Experience the landscape as it was when the Native Americans roamed it and get to know the sky as half the scenery. See the prairie grasses starting to set beautiful seedheads and the last round of summer sunflowers. Watch for grassland birds migrating through.

Then a brief drive to a nearby Benbrook Lake picnic shelter at 7001 Lakeside Dr., Fort Worth 76132 for a 15-min talk plus 5-min Q&A, followed by book signing. Bring a bag lunch!

Amy Martin has long been a Blackland Prairie fan, even turning 15 acres of Bermuda pasture and juniper scrub into tallgrass prairie. But to write Wild DFW, Martin had to learn all about the shorter-grassed Fort Worth or Grand Prairie. Under Suzanne Tuttle’s and Don Young’s tutelage, Martin became captivated with how wildly flowered it was, yet withstood herds of cattle on the Chisholm Trail.

Ultimately, she realized how the prairies reflected their major metropolis’s personality and set their fortunes in motion. She’ll muse on the strange fate of two major cities with an intense rivalry being separated by a literal wall of Eastern Cross Timbers. Listen to her read poetic prairie passages from the book.

More about the host: Fort Worth chapter Native Prairies Association of Texas