Posts Tagged ‘Tandy Hills’
Mystery Of The Mad Wacker Solved
Jeff PrinceAfter hearing about the Mad Wacker who attacked Don Young’s wildlife habitat, I decided to get all private investigatory. Young wrote down the man’s license plate, and yesterday I looked up the records, found the ma...
Mad Wacker Loose In Fort Worth; Hide Your Milkweed
Jeff PrinceNobody is prouder of their front yard than Don and Debora Young, East Side environmentalists and unofficial caretakers of Tandy Hills Natural Area. Their yard is a canvas of native grasses and wildflowers that represent how the...
Prairie Fest Illuminates Beauty Of Tandy Hills
Jeff PrinceIf you missed last weekend’s 8th Annual Prairie Fest, don’t cry in your organic whole grain cereal. Crackerjack photographers are usually milling about and capturing the beauty and grace found in such abundance at t...
Friends Of Tandy Hills Group Gets Some Dallas Love
Jeff PrinceThe little nonprofit group that works to preserve one of Fort Worth’s most coveted natural areas won a Green Source DFW Sustainable Leadership Award this week. Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area was nominated in the category...
Time Again For Trout Lily Walk
Jeff PrinceThat harbinger of spring known as the trout lily – a cute wildflower with perky petals – begins beckoning nature lovers about this time each year. Poetic environmentalist Don Young describes the wildflowers as “golden-thr...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 26 Area churches and a Fort Worth mosque will be hosting events this week as part of the Kwanzaa celebration. The nonreligious Afrocentric festivities take up the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and they kick o...
Don Young Is Bad, He’s Nationwide
Jeff PrinceYou’ve seen Don Young’s name in Blotch and the pages of Fort Worth Weekly many times in the past eight years, ever since gas drilling became prevalent near parks, schools, homes, rivers, and lakes. Prior to that, Yo...
Prairie Buster
Big TicketThis year’s Prairie Fest has tripled in size, going from one day to three — one each in March, April, and May — to celebrate spring in Tandy Hills Park and the idea of building cities that exist in better harmony with nat...
Olive Is Home
Jeff PrinceHere’s a feel-good story to kick off your weekend: Earlier this week Blotch told readers about Olive, the Tandy Hills Natural Area’s unofficial mascot that went missing. Don and Debora Young were heartbroken and did...
Where’s Olive?
Jeff PrinceThe little dog with the funny teeth and sweet personality had become the unofficial mascot of the Tandy Hills Natural Area in recent years, and she’s a familiar sight at the Prairie Fest events. Debora Young adopted the d...
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