Defining Dallas: Drought and the Heat Island Effect
As with everything, my insatiable curiosity leads me to adventures. This past week I went on a hike to one of the remote areas of Trinity River Audubon Center to view a pond that I hadn't seen before (because you have to hack your way through a lot of brush to get there, and I'd never gotten around to it.) It's been hot here in Texas (you may have noticed) but the sight of the pond itself was eerie. The shores had receded nearly 40 feet in some areas and there were dead carp (skeletons) strewn on the shoreline and at least 40 large dead mussels. Wading birds were wading in the water, but it wasn't very deep water.
