The North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) is delighted to offer its congratulations to the John Bunker Sands Wetland Center and Rosewood Ranches as recipients of the 2022 Texas Leopold Conservation Award, the state’s highest honor for private land conservation.... more
Hundreds of people gathered together on a sunny Saturday morning to celebrate the opening of The Pavilion Silos at John Bunker Sands Wetland Center to officially unveil the future legacy of conservation education at this vital environmental resource. Centered in... more
WHEN: Saturday, April 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: John Bunker Sands Wetland Center 655 Martin Lane Combine, TX 75159 WHAT: The John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (Center), along with the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) and... more
John Bunker Sands was a life-long conservationist with a dream to restore thousands of acres of his family’s land to wetlands. And, in the early 2000s, the North Texas Municipal Water District’s service area was experiencing a population boom and... more
In advance of the month-long focus on the benefits natural and constructed wetlands, the NTMWD Board of Directors will hold their regular monthly meeting at the John Bunker Sands Wetland Center on Thursday, April 25. American Wetlands Month was created... more
The May edition of News Stream kicks off Drinking Water Week, May 6-12, with a recap of our recent Lavon Lake Watershed Tour that showed participants how we work together to Protect the Source. National Infrastructure Week, May 14-21 reminds... more
Six Texan-Led Conservation Initiatives Selected for Honor Texan by Nature (TxN), a Texas-led conservation non-profit founded by former First Lady Laura Bush, announced the honorees of its annual Conservation Wrangler program for 2018 including East Fork Water Supply Project and... more
The Christmas Bird Count is Friday, December 30, 2016 at the John Bunker Sands Wetland Center and Trinity River Audubon Center. Assist with the largest ongoing citizen science project in the nation. Volunteer to count birds from sunup-sundown with the... more
Will You Go Out With Me? The John Bunker Sands Wetland Center is joining the #optoutside movement started by REI! Instead of shopping inside the day after Thanksgiving, join us outside at the JBS Wetland Center for bird watching, hiking... more