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

In May, fellow nature lover and author Amy Martin did a presentation at the Bachman Library about Ned Fritz, a special man in local environmental history. Amy has been a journalist and writer for over 40 years and is the author of Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth. One of her passion projects is a biographical website about Ned Fritz, Texas' most famous environmentalist. The following summary reflects what we learned during Amy Martin's present

May newsletter: Cleanup volunteers making a huge difference; Bachman pool finally reopens; Dallas without a car?; Love Field new aircraft observation deck; laying down irrigation for new plants.