FedEx Delivers Riparian Restoration for the Trinity Trust and the City of Dallas in Community Conservation Project

City of Dallas sent this bulletin at 05/21/2014 11:39 AM CDT

FedEx Delivers Riparian Restoration for the Trinity Trust

 and the City of Dallas in Community Conservation Project

 

WHAT:             The Trinity Trust Foundation and the City of Dallas are teaming up with FedEx to help revitalize and clean up areas of the Great Trinity Forest, which consists of 6,200 acres of urban bottomland hardwood forest in Dallas, the Lower Chain of Wetlands and a natural spring. More than 70 volunteers will provide environmental restoration, cleanup and plant native species back into the region. 

 

WHY:               The Community Conservation Project is part of a grant program sponsored by FedEx and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to address pressing urban environmental challenges. The local effort is focused on creating outdoor recreation facilities for the City as well as restoration and urban conservation awareness for Dallas’ forest and the Trinity River. The Trinity Trust is one of 16 nonprofits selected from across the country by FedEx and NFWF to receive support in 2014

 

WHEN:

Thursday, May 22, 2014 – 9:15 a.m.

 

WHERE:

Kick-off Site:

Trinity River Audubon Center, 6500 Great Trinity Forest Way, Dallas, TX  75217

Remarks:  9:15 a.m.   Work Begins:  9:45 a.m.

 

Work site:

-Trinity River Audubon Center – 6500 Great Trinity Forest Way

-Lower Chain of Wetlands at the end of Fellows

-Pemberton Road and Elam

 

SPOKESPEOPLE:
  • Dr. Gail Thomas, The Trinity Trust representatives
  • Sarah Standifer, Assistant Director of Trinity Watershed Management for the City of Dallas
  • Nathan Loftice, Sustainability Leader FedEx Office

 

VISUALS:

 

 

Volunteers will pick up trash, clear invasive plant species, provide trail maintenance, and have a chance to see the new projects under development or completed in the Great Trinity Forest: Trinity River Audubon Center, Trinity Forest Trails, Lower Chain of Wetlands, and the AT&T Trail is under construction and the Texas Horse Park.  The Trinity Forest Golf Course has an anticipated construction start late in 2014.

 

The Trinity Trust, FedEx volunteers, City of Dallas, and the Trinity River Audubon Center will work together to enhance the beauty and restorative properties long the Trinity River and the forest.

 

BACKGROUND:

 

 

Over the past five years, FedEx and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) have provided over $3 million to support more than 60 projects. In 2014, FedEx and NFWF grants will total over $1 million, and will be matched with grants from local municipalities and agencies to yield over $9.3 million in support of these critical environmental sustainability projects.

 

FedEx and NFWF provided a grant of $33,400 for the Trinity River Corridor Project, leveraging $50,000 from local matching sources for a total impact of $83,400 benefitting the City of Dallas and the Trinity River Corridor Project. Through the Trinity River Corridor Wetlands Planting and Restoration, FedEx volunteers in Dallas will join an estimated 700 FedEx team members from 15 other cities supporting projects in their communities.

 

Also this spring, continuing their sustainability efforts, FedEx is serving as national sponsor of the 2014 Arbor Day Foundation Community Tree Recovery program.  In the wake of natural disaster, the program focuses on the environmental recovery by restoring urban forests and community trees, which play a critical role in community health, local ecology and environmental sustainability. 

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Heather Alexander

heather.alexander@fedex.com

214-550-7533 (office)

214-450-7473 (cell)

Judy Schmidt, City of Dallas
judy.schmidt@dallascityhall.com

214-671-9025 (office)

214-317-9685 (cell)