The latest newsletter features an "eyes on the ground" perspective by an alert resident; a big thank you for your donations; iNaturalist app features Friends of Bachman Lake; a call to recruit board members with special skills ...

A 2026 email exchange shows how resident Waymond Young documented park concerns, raised them with city leaders and helped prompt follow-up, cleanups, inspections and repairs around Bachman Lake.

The latest newsletter features a North Texas Giving Day special event at On Rotation Brewery & Kitchen, making videos to promote the Greenbelt, new sidewalks and trail head coming, feedback from parkgoers ... more!

Our Summer 2026 Edition celebrates the progress along the Bachman Greenbelt and activites that support the amazing transformation of the area. Plus the Park will soon have a long-awaited Master Plan!

We are blessed with riparian edges along Bachman Lake and Bachman Creek. Though the edge at Bachman Lake is not natural because it was formed through the establishment of the dam, we can still increase ground absorption along the edge by adding native prairie grasses with very deep roots. This will be a great consideration as we work with the City on a master plan for Bachman Lake Park and the Greenbelt.

Our in-house volunteer engineer literally cringed when it was suggested that we use a cart and watering cans to irrigate newly planted vegetation. Then, the engineering mind went to work on an irrigation solution that would make gravity do the heavy lifting, so to speak. Going downhill from this point was actually a good thing!

Dr Jaime Baxter-Slye (left), Lily Olivarez (second to right), Luis Ibarra (right), and other UNT Volunteers This summer, Friends of Bachman Lake is excited to welcome two student interns from the University of North Texas’s Department of Biological Sciences to the Bachman Greenbelt. Lily Olivarez and Luis Ibarra, ecology majors at UNT, are spending the summer working in the greenbelt under the guidance of their professor, Dr. Jaime Baxter-Slye. Their work will help us better

The Bachman Greenbelt by day is beautiful, as birds chirp and bees surround the wildflowers that pepper the area. But after the sun sets, the greenbelt is completely transformed when moths, beetles, fireflies and other insects emerge and take over. As part of our partnership with the University of North Texas, Lily Olivarez and Luis Ibarra organized a mothing event on June 15th in the greenbelt. The purpose of this event was to showcase the incredible diversity of insects tha

June newsletter: Good trail news; Looking back at a local environmental pioneer; and when thinking big is the way to go.

Dallas is making an important investment in the future of the Harry Hines corridor. Plans to transform the roadway with green trails, a new park, and safer pedestrian and bike infrastructure will help reshape an area long dominated by traffic into one that prioritizes people. The project promises cooler streets, better mobility, and healthier connections within the medical district. But Dallas has an opportunity to make this investment even more meaningful: connect it to Bach