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What is the Great Trinity Forest?

 Chris Jackson's DFW Urban Wildlife  20 Responses »
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What is the Great Trinity Forest?

The Great Trinity Forest—many have heard of it, but how many of us really know what it is? In the simplest terms, the Great Trinity Forest is roughly six thousand acres of mostly bottomland woods that follow the Trinity River and White Rock Creek as they flow through South Dallas. It is claimed to be

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Bald Eagle – Nest Tower

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Full disclosure… This observation actually took place a [...]

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White-tailed Deer – Grand Park Video

White-tailed Deer videoed with a Scouting Camera in Grand Park, Frisco, Texas. The deer in the first video were recorded on the east side [...]

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Red-tailed Hawk – High Tech Nest

Apr 18, 2012

The evening before I took these photographs I had noticed a pair of Red-tailed Hawks soaring around a cell phone tower in Richardson, [...]

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Journal – Ghost Towns in North Texas?

Dateline – March 28, 2005

While collecting data for the maps I made for this site I stumbled across something interesting. I referenced a number [...]

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