The Dallas County Conservation Board is making accommodations to best suit guests with the amenities in the parks, as Director Curt Cable touches on a few areas of importance.

Cable details that the board is working on forest management plans for both Voas Nature Area and Kuehn Conservation Area. He says that a few forest park managers are sharing scientific-based information that will help the conservation board identify areas of improvement. Cable indicates that there are plans to put a facility center at Kuehn Conservation to support the environmental education program. 

He details that with the growing population of Dallas County, there are challenges with the school’s field day seasons, which generally run from September through November and then March through May. Cable says the Conservation Center would assist students, especially when there’s weather in the area.

“It’s a really tight fit for them (students) to get in if there’s a rain day in there, or a day that they have to reschedule, this would allow us to continue to do that year round and not have to worry about weather as much. There’s not really a great place out there for people to seek shelter in case of a storm, and this would provide an area for this as well.”

Cable describes the next steps is to put together a fundraising committee and is trying to determine the amount of money that will go towards the project.