Parks and Historic Sites

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As Legislature Mulls State Parks' Closure, Would-Be Sites Languish For Decades

The budget ax brought down by the state legislature in 2011 gouged a huge chunk from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which lost more than a fifth of its funding. The result was layoffs and a reduction in staffing and hours of operation at a number of state parks. The initial spending propo ... More >>

Jesus Is Watching You

British Petroleum Presents Galveston Island State Park: Texas Parks Department Wants Corporate Sponsors

The Texas Parks And Wildlife Department, the state agency that operates state parks and regulates hunting, fishing and related activities, announced today that it is seeking corporate partners. Seriously. Says so right on their website in big, bold letters: "Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Seeks ... More >>

Le Freak's in Bloom

Showdown at Winfrey Point

Yet another episode in the saga to preserve nature in Dallas.

Winfrey Point Fallout Shows City Hall Still Doesn't Know How to Listen

Dallas City Hall. Enough to drive a sane person crazy on any given day. What is it they don't get -- other than everything? In today's Dallas Morning News, Paul Dyer, the very decent man who is director of the Park Department, gives an absolutely honest and totally infuriating explanation of the wa ... More >>

The Call of Chihuly

Arboretum Chases Away Holiday Blues

Have a Coke and a Frown: Another Win for Libertarian Robber Barons Eating the Planet

​Here is where this libertarian bullshit -- the propaganda foisted on us by Koch-brothers, Harold-Simmons-style polluter robber barons -- just makes suckers, fools and chumps out of us if we believe it. A story in today's New York Times reports that the top national park system official killed ... More >>

Park It Here

What Happens to the World's Unused Pumpkins?

Dallas Arboretum​Sunday evening, just hours until Halloween, there were still hundreds of un-sold pumpkins at a local farmers market. It raised the question -- what happens to all the left-behind gourds? Do the extras go to the pie factory? Or are they all just tossed in the dump? Turns out ... More >>

Get Off on Gourds

Bunny Blooms

Tea Time

Shed Some Light on History

City Hall Still Trying to Find "Best Solution" for Those Who Want to Community Garden

Sara KerensScott and Mariana Griggs at the "West Dallas Country Club," otherwise known as their community garden​You probably forgot all about City Hall's efforts to regulate community gardens -- after all, it's been about two months since the topic came up at the council's Transportation and Envi ... More >>

Flowers on the Cheap

Liveblogging the Transportation and Environment Committee Meeting

​Good afternoon, Friends. Here we gather in City Hall's icy 6ES to commence the Transportation and Environment Committee Meeting, at which is promised discussion of both transportation and environment: street cars and community gardens are both on the agenda, with a bonus presentation on the North ... More >>

Taking a Bike-Riding Tour of Oak Cliff's Community Gardens, No Permits Necessary

Andrea GrimesThe St. Cecilia's Community Garden was on yesterday's tour​Sunday afternoon, a horde of be-SPF'd cyclists gathered outside Eno's in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District to launch an extremely polite two-wheeled assault on Oak Cliff. The "Spring Has Sprung Garden Ride" was more of a summer ... More >>

Native Texans

Charitable Tea Baggers

When It Comes To Community Gardens, City Hall And Its Crazy Procedures Are Like Agent Orange

Ferdinand's Utopia

In North Oak Cliff They Know You Can't Fight City Hall, But You Can Bike Around It

Drink Up, Pinky Out

Dallas Has A Dirty Secret: It Acts As If Supports the Community Gardens Movement, But That's Not the Real Truth.

Queen of Kiddie Green

Storybook Beginning

Bunnies And Blooms

The Arboretum throws an Easter party

Barr None

Nevada Barr signs her latest thriller

Wild Wonders

Take a trip down the Colorado via IMAX

Christmas Chompers

The Arboretum takes care of its nut problem

Does JWP Really Have a "Take Me to Parkland" Tattoo? Be Cooler If He Did.

Jack-Elitists

Worship the pumpkin at the Arboretum

Morning Announcements

Mad Fun

Eat, drink and bid in the garden

A Piece of Parkland Hospital is Now Buried Deep Below Kansas Soil

Sweet Mulch

Calendar Girl

Jack-O-Retum

British Tea Power

Flowers on the Wall

Holidays Are Here

Best Place to Photograph a Portrait

Dallas Arboretum

Best Outdoors Experience

Cedar Hill State Park

Nurturing Nature

New growth blooms at the Dallas Nature Center at last

Best family outing on a summer weekday

The Dallas Arboretum

Buzz

Unkindest cuts