Wild DFW: Twenty Top Surprises of North Texas Nature 

As author Amy Martin explored North Central Texas to write Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth, twenty facts, places, flora, and fauna surprised her, even after decades as an eco-journalist. Take the journey with her in this talk and learn what she discovered. Enjoy some of the book’s more rhapsodic passages about prairies, creeks, and the Moon, and peak experiences from its 25 hiking adventures through hardwood bottomland forests, soaring limestone escarpments, vast wetlands and winding waterways, rare remnants of Blackland and Fort Worth Prairies, and well-preserved swaths of Eastern Cross Timbers “cast iron forest. ”

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A journalist and writer for over 40 years, Amy Martin is the author of  Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth ( Wild-DFW.com),  Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant (Itchy.biz),  and co-author of Speaking of Mother Earth. She is currently senior features writer for Green Source DFW (GreenSourceDFW.org). Her current project is Ned Fritz Legacy (NedFritz.com), a biographical website of Ned Fritz, Texas’ most famous environmentalist. Martin sits on the Dallas County Open Space’s (DallasCounty.org/parks) Trails and Preserves Program board and serves as state social media director for Native Prairies Association of Texas (TexasPrairie.org). For twelve years, she managed wildlife habitat rehabilitation on a private nature preserve in northeast Texas, including converting fifteen acres of pasture into tallgrass prairie. She is a certified Texas Master Naturalist with the North Texas chapter (NTMN.org). Find her writings at Moonlady.com.