Room Location: Glenmore Savage Community Room

Denton County is home to three of the five largest—ranging from 2600 to 3700 acres— nature parks and preserves in North Texas: Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center (Denton), Ray Roberts Lake State Park (Pilot Point), and Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area, called LLELA. That’s bragging rights! Amy Martin, author of Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth, will share excerpts and photos from those chapters in the book, woven with the dramatic story of recovering from a traumatically broken neck by walking dirt trails at these and other locations. 

A journalist and writer for over 40 years, Amy Martin is also the author of Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant (Itchy.biz). She is senior features writer for Green Source DFW (GreenSourceDFW.org). A current project is Ned Fritz Legacy (NedFritz.com), a biographical website of Ned Fritz, Texas' most famous environmentalist. Find her writings at Moonlady.com.