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Stories: Justin Merrick
Justin Merrick is the Executive Director of Center for Transforming Communities, an organization dedicated to building up the cultural, economic, social, physical and municipal health of neighborhoods. Overton Park Conservancy […]
#NatureZen: Spring Firsts
words and photos by Melissa McMasters The last week has been full of somber anniversaries and memories of when the world shut down. It’s been a year of loss, sacrifice, […]
Stories: Kaci Murley
Conservancy Deputy Executive Director Kaci Murley shares the story of a special day in Overton Park. On a sunny Saturday in December 2020, Ian and I pulled up to Overton […]
Stories: David Hill
Conservancy board member David Hill shared one of his all-time favorite family videos with us. Here you can see three of David’s sons and a friend emerging one-by-one from within […]
Stories: Michele Adelman
Overton Park Conservancy board member Michele Adelman shares that she and her husband Steve love to walk their dog Milton in the Old Forest. It’s one of their favorite things […]
Fifty years ago today…
Fifty years ago today, Overton Park’s future was decided in the Supreme Court of the United States. On March 2, 1971, after well over a decade of battling local, state, […]
#NatureZen: A Guide to Feeding Wild Birds (Part 2)
Words by Fields Falcone; photos by Fields and Mike Falcone After yesterday’s crisis account and some feeder challenges and good practices, now the fun part – attracting birds to your […]
#NatureZen: Crisis at the Feeders (Part 1)
In a special two-part NatureZen, our Programs Manager Fields Falcone sends a dispatch from last week’s extraordinary weather event, which she spent watching over a flock of desperate birds that […]
Zone 1 Survey Results – Part 2
Last week we shared the first set of results from our survey about the future of the east side of the park. The first set of questions covered the entirety […]
Zone 1 Survey Results – Part 2 (Text Only)
Last week we shared the first set of results from our survey about the future of the east side of the park. The first set of questions covered the entirety […]