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Tom will walk us through the forest and as we walk, he will discuss the forest as he found it in the 1980s, when he assisted with the establishment of the Preserve.Tom has been associated with our Preserve long before it was designated Preserve. He was a landscape architect with the Garland Parks Department, working for GPD Director Jim Stone, all during the time in the 1980s when the area was being evaluated.
He worked with many people such as Bobby Scott, the young Garland citizen who nudged and pushed and insisted that the area to be set aside as a preserve. Tom guided many regional experts on walks through the forest. The experts represented the best of Texas botanists and conservationists, and they sent correspondence about our preserve’s unique qualities to advocate for it to be named as a preserve. The experts were from, among others, BRIT, The Nature Conservancy, UT at Austin, Texas Natural Heritage Program, Texas Dept of Water Resource, SMU, US Fish and Wildlife.
So… you see that the designation of this area as Preserve, was no happy accident. It is the culmination of hours and months of advocacy and Tom Frey was there throughout the process.
Tom became the adviser and intermediary when the Society was formed in 1989. And still, although now retired, he is available to the Society for advice and to lead walks and to be a featured speaker so we can keep the history of the Preserve alive.
The photo is of Tom Frey leading a winter walk.
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