Why Aren't There More Tree/Green in Dallas Compare to Houston???? (Fort Worth: renting, buying a house)

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by 5stones

I grew up in Houston and I will never move back, yes it's green and parts are very pretty, but I like it here better. (Not to mention the HUMIDITY!!)

I have many friends up here in the Dallas area that all grew up down in Houston. Every single one of them says the same thing. Most of them are thrilled when they get the rest of their family to move up here. I have a small handful of friends thru the years that grew up here in the Dallas area and have moved down to Houston and still live there. One tolerates it as that is where her husbands job was and the kids grew up there and live there now. The others have adapted but that has a lot to do w/ attitude. They are happy wherever they are. Others have moved down there due to jobs and found they didn't like it as much as Dallas and came back.

I know enough about Houston to know that I would not want to live there. Been there enough and go often enough to know that it is NOT for me.

[First24]

Originally Posted by feufoma

Central Dallas (and Fort Worth) have great trees! Sure, the burbs are more "native" prairie, but there are parts of DFW that have a nice canopy. Houston's climate is, however, much more suited to tree growth as well as supporting other vegetation. As far as the humidity-it's really brutal this summer! But, I will say that I look much younger than some of my friends that live in drier climates. At least there's a positive side-the humidity helps make one's skin look much better. Frankly, I will generally get nose bleeds and have to constantly apply lip balm during the cooler months when I visit the D.

Some researchers suggest high humidity contributes to clog pours and limits the skin's natural oils from flowing.

America's "Worst-Skin Cities"? Houston, Pittsburgh and Bakersfield, Calif. (http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Americas-Worst-Skin-Cities-Houston-Pittsburgh-and-Bakersfield-Calif-995105.htm - broken link)

[feufoma]

Originally Posted by Scout_972

Some researchers suggest high humidity contributes to clog pours and limits the skin's natural oils from flowing.

America's "Worst-Skin Cities"? Houston, Pittsburgh and Bakersfield, Calif. (http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Americas-Worst-Skin-Cities-Houston-Pittsburgh-and-Bakersfield-Calif-995105.htm - broken link)

Yeah, but I'm a bit past the zit stage! Thanks!

[DaveG99]

I still want to know who counted the trees.

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by DaveG99

I still want to know who counted the trees.

LOL!!! A really, REALLY, REALLY bored person.
I mean, you didn't hear the helicopter buzzing overhead for a month straight every single day counting the trees.

[Lakewooder]

Originally Posted by Overcooked_Oatmeal

Dallas sits on a prairie, Houston sits along the Piney Woods. Simple as that.

Wrong again porridge breath!

I guess you must have lived out north somewhere close to Oklahoma on a former cotton farm.

Here is The Great Trinity Forest with the gorgeous Oz-like Dallas skyline setting it off!

[Willsson]

Originally Posted by Winter2010

If you live in Houston, you will find tons of greens, within the city limit and outside the city in some suburbs such as The Woodlands, Sugar Land, Spring, Kingwoods, etc. Lots of trees.

Why isn't it the same with Dallas? All you need is soil and water.

Location... Location... Location...

Houston is at about 50' elevation and is built on mud.
Dallas is at about 525' elevation and is built on BS.... I mean rock. Except the Trinity River basin which is mud that slid off the rock and is on its way to Houston.

[DFWMike]

Hurst, Bedford, Flower Mound, McKinney, I live in a well treed neighborhood in Frisco(one of the few I admit). Certainly alot of areas in Dallas are well treed as well as Duncanville I actually could go on and on.

Houston can be sporadically treed as well, the north side and the Cypress area have great pine forests, but Sugarland is part prairie zone as are alot of areas around Pasadena and Clear Lake. I do agree there are not the universal areas of forest found in Houston, but we do have plenty of treed areas in DFW.

I had a similiar belief about DFW my entire life until I moved here a decade ago. You just have to do some searching here to find the green neighborhoods but they do exist fairly plentifully.

[momof2dfw]

I live near the Spring Creek Forest Preserve in Garland. I have PLENTY of trees around me. And they were not planted on a former cotton field patch. They have been there for a LONG time and LONG before any developers were building in this area.
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I also have over 20 trees in my own backyard. I LOVE trees and there are PLENTY of them here in the Dallas metroplex.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Wrong again porridge breath!

I guess you must have lived out north somewhere close to Oklahoma on a former cotton farm.

Here is The Great Trinity Forest with the gorgeous Oz-like Dallas skyline setting it off!

Dallas is part of the Black Land Prairie.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/pics/txphysio.jpg


However, trees are abundant where the prairie has been incized by rivers and streams where sufficient alluvium has been deposited to form good soil profiles, as in your picture. Quoting myself from one of me ESAs.

Below the surface soils lie the water-bearing alluvium and bolsum deposits of the Trinity River. The water-bearing sediments forming this aquifer are generally unconsolidated, alternating and discontinuous beds of silt, clay, sand, gravel, and boulders. The total thickness of the Trinity River Alluvium ranges from 15 to over 200 feet, with saturated thicknesses approaching 100 feet. This aquifer supplies some water for irrigation with minor amounts for livestock and mining. Recharge is derived primarily from precipitation on the outcrop, the Trinity River, flooding, and from the temporary riverbank storage pond south of the property. Typically, the groundwater level will remain a few feet above the level of water in the Trinity River.