Texas Buckeye Walk on Ned & Genie’s Trail with Wild DFW

April 6 Sunday – 10 am to 12 pm

Ned & Genie Fritz Texas Buckeye Trail
7000 Bexar St, Dallas, TX 75215

Celebrate the 6th anniversary of Amy Martin’s survival of a shattered C2 vertebrae that kills or paralyzes all but 2% of who it strikes.

Come hike the soft-surface (natural) trail segments of the @Ned & Genie Fritz Texas Buckeye Trail to the Trinity River as part of the Ned Fritz Legacy https://nedfritz.com/ team’s annual Texas buckeye walks, organized by Kristi Kerr Leonard. Most likely the Texas buckeyes will be finished blooming. So we’ll instead have a wonderful hike in the beautiful spring woods and learn about bottomland ecology and Ned’s efforts to save the Great Trinity Forest and the Trinity River.

Along the 2.5 mile round-trip, view the 2nd Saturday workday team’s habitat restoration efforts. Join their efforts. https://volunteersignup.org/QREYA

This amble recreates the trail’s chapter in Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth (Timber Press). The hike, one of the book’s 25 adventure narratives, was taken in spring with Kristi Kerr and Eileen McKee, the Fritz’s daughter, to experience the Texas buckeye blooms.

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<> Ned Fritz Legacy Texas Buckeye history page: https://nedfritz.com/?page_id=2577#buckeye
<> North Texas Master Naturalist pages:
~ Buckeye restoration: https://ntmn.org/the-buckeye-trail
~ Buckeye background: https://ntmn.org/the-buckeye-trail/

All us nature lovers owe Ned and Genie so much—pay it forward.