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October 10 & 11, 2009
Saturday, 10 AM to 4 PM
Sunday, 12 PM to 5 PM
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CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH NATURE THROUGH ART, EXPLORATION, AND SUSTAINABLE LIVING
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Saturday & Sunday Schedule
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Saturday Activities:
(times subject to change)
10 am-4 pm
Nature Play Stations, Discovery Garden
10 am & 12 pm
Hike - Introduction to Birding, Nancy Scott, Audubon Dallas, meet at reception desk
11 am & 1 pm
Building Tours, meet at reception desk
11 am-1pm
Introduction to Yoga, Dirt Cheap Yoga, Great Deck
1-3 pm
Tai Chi for Health, Brenda Sexton Sanders, Great Deck
2 pm
Hike Ecology of the Great Trinity Forest, Jim Flood, meet at reception desk
4 pm
Rehabilitated bird release (weather dependent), meet at Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc. booth
Saturday Community Partners
& Educational Booths:
Backyard Poultry, Ami & Russell Campbell
Blackland Prairie Raptor Center
Bluestem Nursery
City of Dallas Forester
City of Dallas Storm Water Management
City of Dallas Dallas Water Utilities, Grease Abatement
City of Dallas Dallas Water Utilities, Water Conservation
City of Plano Plano Pure Mulch & Compost
Dallas-Ft. Worth Tarantula & Arachnid Group
Dallas Zoo
Museum of Nature and Science
Native Plant Society of Texas
North Texas Master Naturalists
Ollin Xochipilli Aztec dance & culture
REI
Rodeo City Racing Pigeon Club
Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.
TXU and Texas Trees Foundation tree giveaways
Texas Astronomical Society
Texas Honeybee Guild
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
TexasCrawdads.com
US Environmental Protection Agency Kids’ Environmental Health
Wild Birds Unlimited
WildCare
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Saturday Workshops:
10:30 AM 11:15 AM
Multipurpose Room
Planting for Energy Efficiency
Janette Monear, Executive Director
Texas Trees Foundation with TXU
Lab 1
Composting 101
Sara Beckleman
North Texas Master Naturalist
Lab 2
Multipurpose Room
Native Grasses in the Urban Landscape
John Snowden
Bluestem Nursery
12:00 PM 12:45 PM
Multipurpose Room
PEAK Camping
Renee Shippey, Outreach Specialist
REI
Lab 1
Conservation 101: Putting the Pieces Together
Janice Bezanson, Executive Director
Texas Conservation Alliance
Lab 2
Introduction to Dragonfly and Damselfly Ecology
Dr. Bryan Reese
El Centro College
1:30 PM 2:15 PM
Multipurpose Room
Hidden Gems The Orchids of Dallas
Dr. Marcy BrownMarsden
University of Dallas
Lab 1
Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned from Nature; Why Nature Deficit Disorder Matters
Stephanie Timko, North Texas Master Naturalist
Lab 2
Bees in the ‘Hood (Urban Beekeeping)
Susan & Brandon Pollard
Texas Honeybee Guild
3:00 PM 3:45 PM
Multipurpose Room
Family Camping
Renee Shippey
REI
Lab 1
Texas Crawdads
Kurt Johnson
Texascrawdads.com
Lab 2
Where Does Our Water Come From? Where Does It Go?
Helen Cantril Dulac
Dallas Water Utilities Grease Abatement
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Sunday Activities:
(times subject to change)
10 am- 12 pm
Nature From the Inside Out: Reconnecting to Nature Through Movement, Meditation, and Journaling workshop with Gretchen Ferris, LPC, LMFT & Stephanie Kunkle-Timko, M.A., LPC-I, meet in the multipurpose room, bring a journal and pencil
10 am & 12 pm
Hike - Introduction to Birding, Linda Ford, Audubon Dallas, meet at reception desk
12 pm-5 pm
Nature Play Stations, Discovery Garden
11 am & 1 pm
Building Tours, meet at reception desk
12 pm-2pm
Introduction to Yoga, Brandi Waits, Great Deck
2 pm
Paddling 101, meet at KayakPower.com booth
2 pm
Hike Ecology of the Great Trinity Forest, Jim Flood, meet at reception desk
2-4 pm
Tai Chi for Health, Brenda Sexton Sanders, Great Deck
5 pm
Rehabilitated bird release (weather dependent), meet at Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc. booth
Sunday Community Partners
& Educational Booths:
Bluestem Nursery
City of Dallas Forester
City of Dallas Storm Water Management
City of Dallas Dallas Water Utilities, Grease Abatement
City of Dallas Dallas Water Utilities, Water Conservation
City of Plano Plano Pure Mulch & Compost
Dallas-Ft. Worth Herpetological Society
Dallas-Ft. Worth Tarantula & Arachnid Group
Dallas Zoo
Happy Hen Farm
KayakPower.com
Museum of Nature and Science
North Texas Master Naturalists
Ollin Xochipilli Aztec dance & culture
REI
Rodeo City Racing Pigeon Club
Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.
TXU and Texas Trees Foundation
Texas Astronomical Society
Texas Honeybee Guild
TexasCrawdads.com
US Environmental Protection Agency Kids’ Environmental Health
Wild Birds Unlimited
WildCare
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Sunday Workshops:
12:00 PM 12:45 PM
Multipurpose Room
Starting A Community Garden
A.L. Nickerson
Community Gardening Consultant
Lab 1
Native Grasses in the Urban Landscape
John Snowden
Bluestem Nursery
Lab 2
Bees in the ‘Hood (Urban Beekeeping)
Susan & Brandon Pollard
Texas Honeybee Guild
1:30 PM 2:15 PM
Multipurpose Room
City Chickens
Lara Guerra
Happy Hen Farm
Lab 1
North Texas Prairie Conservation
David Bezanson
The Nature Conservancy
Lab 2
Planting for Energy Efficiency
Janette Monear, Executive Director
Texas Trees Foundation with TXU
3:00 PM 3:45 PM
Multipurpose Room
The Reptiles & Amphibians of the DFW Area
Mark Pyle
Dallas-Ft. Worth Herpetological Society
Lab 2
Sustainable Landscaping
City of Dallas Storm Water Management
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Trinity River Audubon Center
click here.
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