Trinity Park Conservancy

Honored to have our CEO, Brian Kilpatrick, represent Trinity Park Conservancy as a panelist at the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce Public Policy & Prosperity Summit! 🏛️✨

Brian joined fellow leaders, policymakers, and community advocates to discuss key policies, economic development, and strategic investments shaping the future of Dallas.

A huge thank you to Kiyundra, Elvia, and Daysi at the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce for their incredible work organizing such an impactful event and for having us! 🙌

Thank you to Congressman Marc Veasey and his dedicated staff, as well as Councilmember Laura Cadena (Laura For Dallas) and her team, for their incredible support of Harold Simmons Park! 🌳✨

Transformative projects like this take a village, and we’re so fortunate to work alongside dedicated public servants to bring this vision to life for all of Dallas! 💚

Celebrating our incredible interns, Juana Arun and Symone Speed-Jones, who wrapped up their internship with Trinity Park Conservancy last week! 🌳✨

Through our partnership with Dallas Works, powered by the All Stars Project, Inc., Juana and Symone brought fresh perspectives, energy, and dedication to our team while gaining hands-on, real-world experience. Dallas Works connects youth ages 16–21 with meaningful paid internships across the city, preparing the next generation of Dallas’s workforce to step up, lead, and make an impact.

Juana and Symone, thank you for all your hard work and contributions to Trinity Park Conservancy. We can’t wait to see the amazing things you’ll accomplish next! 🚀💙

That’s a wrap on Year 6 of the Trinity River Crew! 🌊🍃 Six years of getting our hands dirty, restoring native habitats, and protecting local watersheds, and none of it happens alone. It takes a dedicated network of community leaders, educators, and supporters to keep this momentum growing year after year.

A special thank you to Bank of America and Texas Capital for their generous corporate sponsorship and ongoing investment in our local environment and future leaders. 🌿🙌

Here’s to six incredible years of impact and to building a greener, more resilient North Texas for years to come! 💚✨

Looking back on Week 5 and realizing we only have TWO WEEKS left with the Trinity River Crew! ⏳🌿

Time is flying, but the crew isn't slowing down! Here’s a look at everything we tackled last week as we push toward the finish line:

🛠️ TUESDAY: Joined forces with Texas Conservation Alliance at the Dallas Zoo to clear invasive plants on Monarch Mountain, explore the butterfly & reptile exhibits, and map out our latest iNaturalist.org goals!

🧪 WEDNESDAY: Headed up to Texas Woman's University University to connect with water scientist Dr. Kelly Albus! We explored environmental careers and got a hands-on demo on "tampling" a unique method for testing local water quality. 💧

🔍 THURSDAY: Crew turned teachers! We hosted youth from Wesley-Rankin Community Center down at the Trinity River levees, leading rotations on birding, plant ID, macroinvertebrates, and water chemistry.

🌱 FRIDAY: Greenhouse day with Texas Conservation Alliance! We cleared privet, learned plant propagation techniques, and wrapped up with an eye-opening talk on protecting migratory birds in Dallas. 🦆💡

Swipe through to see the crew in action! 📸

Greenspace Dallas

Weeks 3 & 4 in the books — and the Trinity River Crew has been busy! 🌿💧

Week 3 kicked off with storm drain marking through Uptown and Turtle Creek alongside David and Sam from the City of Dallas — a reminder that everything entering a drain flows straight to our river. 🌀 Then the crew headed to John Bunker Sands Wetland Center, where educator Susey Woodruff showed them how wetlands naturally filter our water before they got to work pulling invasive Johnson grass by the roots and birding the boardwalk with Merlin ID and eBird. 🦅

Week 4 took them to Ten Mile Creek Nature Preserve for trail cleanup and gardening with Dallas County park rangers, then to the Trinity River Audubon Center — once an illegal dump site, now a thriving preserve and a powerful example of environmental injustice reversed. There, the crew ran plant, bird, macroinvertebrate, and water chemistry surveys alongside TRAC educator Genesis and Gabriel Juarez, a 2025 TRC alum now interning at TRAC. Full circle! 💚

In between field days, crew members logged survey data, built solar power boxes with Rick, and made progress on the final presentations they'll share at the Trinity Park Conservancy office at the end of the summer.

All summer, the Trinity River Crew has followed the river through creeks, wetlands, and dam overlooks across Dallas. In June, they followed it all the way to where it ends: the Gulf of Mexico — and for many of our students, it was their first time ever seeing the ocean.

From seining for marine life with the Galveston Bay Foundation to spotting dolphins along the La Porte boardwalk and searching for gators at Sheldon Lake State Park, the crew got a firsthand look at where the river they've studied all season finally meets the sea.

Huge thanks to Galveston Bay Foundation for a full day of hands-on coastal science, and to the Foxwynd Foundation for helping make this experience possible. 💚

Read the full recap here:
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