Thanks to Richard Craig and Trees for Pease, as well as help from Walter Passmore and PARD Forestry Staff, plus our helpful consultants Jill Nokes and Will Pickens, we have over 200 new trees planted at Pease Park with irrigation to each. 40 more went in this week thanks to PARD Forestry staff. We still a number left, but a …
Waller Creek Clean-up
Thanks to Greg Anderson for organizing a very successful Waller Creek clean-up on an otherwise gloomy day. Thanks to our many volunteers to came out including Council member Chris Riley, Asst Director of Watershed Protection Joe Pantalion, a number of downtown residents, many members of the Austin Rowing Club, Austin Dragon Boat Racing, and a few folks from Texas Rowing. …
Republic Deck Progress
Our contractors have had two days without rain this week (Wed and Thu) allowing us to make good progress on laying down the IPE wood deck. It’s heavy, dense material, all holes are pre-drilled, 3 inch long screws and all boards must be 1/4 inch apart to maintain ADA (Americans With Disability) access. A slow process, but it is looking …
Invasives Removal at West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt
On Saturday, 12/5, the Bouldin Creek Neighborhood Parks committee began the first in services of invasive (non-native) tree and plant removal from the West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt. This is one of a series of recommendations from a recently completed LBJ Wildflower Center Study for improving and restoring the greenbelt. Here’s a photo along S. 6th of the big pile of …
Brush Square – Susanna Dickinson House Project
The Friends of the O Henry and Susanna Dickinson Houses, together with the Austin Parks Dept, have been working over the past seven years to restore the Susanna Dickinson House and the final phase is nearly complete. The House is expected to open as a city museum on Texas Independence Day, March 2, 2010. We’ve posted a few photos …
Deck work continues
Slowly and steadly, 4.5 foot sections of IPE wood are being installed, along with the remaining substructure (two C channel steel beams and attached together with a IPE wood Nailer between them. We’re inching closer!
Republic – Decking Being Installed
Well, we had hoped to be done by T-day, but the rain keeps coming (which is good overall, Lake Travis is still only 50 precent full) and we keep getting delayed, so probably another week or so, given the current weather forecast (although both APF staff are from MA and CT and we still giggle when we hear that there …
Wooldridge Square – Giving Big Trees a Big Boost
Last week, Bartlett Tree Experts began work to prune one tree and perform their Root RX on ten additional trees at this square which just celebrated its 100 anniversary as a park in June. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Root Rx …
Republic – Deck C-Channel Going In
We’ve had a good stretch of sunny days in the past few weeks and have made excellent progress – I thik we’ll be seeing rain tonight and tomorrow, but we are hopign to wrap up work on Republic by December 1st! Here’s a view of the deck C-channel/nailers going in and the stone continuing to be laid on the sides …
More Trees for Pease
Over 100 more trees (complete with in ground irrigation) were installed by volunteers today at Pease Park. Thanks to Richard Craig and Trees for Pease, as well as the City of Austin Parks Forestry Division, TreeFolks and our many volunteers. We have another 40 or so trees to be planted sometime in the next month or two that we could …