Living with the Trinity: A River’s Story

This week KERA launched the multimedia project Living with the Trinity that explores the history North Texans’ relationship with the Trinity River. Visitors to the website can explore the geography, ecology and cultural history of the Trinity River through interactive maps, videos and photographs. In addition to a series of radio reports which airs May 12-15 on KERA-FM (transcripts & podcasts are available), a television documentary is planned to air in the fall of 2009.

November 2009 Update
The four-part radio series Banking on the River airs November 17-20 on KERA-FM.  A one-hour television documentary, Living with the Trinity, premieres at 9:00 p.m. Monday, November 23 on KERA-TV. The documentary focuses on the period from 1965 to 1973 when the Trinity River was nearly transformed into a barge canal. The television program and radio reports will be posted on the website after broadcast.

From the site: The intent of Living with the Trinity is to make the Trinity River visible again, to restore the river to its rightful place in the consciousness of those who depend upon it.  In doing so, we seek to connect a knowledge of our historical relationship to the Trinity to the way we live our lives today.  It is our hope that this knowledge will enable all of us to make better choices regarding our future relationship to the river and to the environment through which it flows.

Trinity River Audubon Center – General Info

The Trinity River Audubon Center is schedule to open in October 2008. This new facility “will serve as the gateway to explore the amazing natural resources” of the Trinity River.

Grand Opening weekend: October 18 – 19, 2008

The center is located at 6500 S. Loop 12, Dallas, 75217 (Google map OR Audubon Center PDF Map with hiking/biking trail routes).

For more information about the Audubon Center’s calendar of events/educational programs or to join their newsletter, please visit their site: http://www.tx.audubon.org/Trinity.html

The Trinity Trust Affinity Groups

The Trinity Trust has two groups, the River Rats and the Rat Pack, who are “friends of The Trinity Trust who support the Trinity Project – environmental efforts, outdoor recreation, real estate development, project design, and community rehabilitation.”

More info is available on the Trinity Trust site.

Student Conservation Association’s Hike and Trail Building Project – July 2008

Dates: July 1st – August 1st
Where: Rochester Park – 7000 Bexar Street, Dallas, TX 75215
Time: 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
To Participate: Email mytrinityriver@dallascityhall.com or call (214) 671-9500

The Student Conservation Association (SCA) is a nonprofit organization that offers conservation internships and summer trail crew opportunities to more than 3,000 people each year. SCA members complete projects in every conservation discipline – from archeology to zoology – and everything in between. The City of Dallas is proud to host a SCA team during the month of July in support of the new trails system for the Trinity River Corridor Project.