First of many workdays at Bull Creek Trail

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Our friends at Bull Creek Foundation, led by George Innis, Jerry Levenson and Skip Cameron, led the first of many monthly workdays at Bull Creek, focusing on the trail along the western side of the creek. There’s a lot more to do and they can use lots of volunteers on Sat, Oct 16 from 9 am to noon.

Halfway Done With Zilker Tree Mulching

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Some of our amazing volunteers We had another great crew of 75 volunteers out at Zilker Park today and we made good progress using up three big piles – with volunteers working on two of them and 4 city forestry staff using the brush truck and carts to spread another big pile. We’re about half way done and we’ll be …

Lots of Dillo Dirt and Some Mulch Spread

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Thanks to 65+ Parks staff and volunteers, we were able to spread three of the four big piles of dillo dirt around several hundred trees and started working on one of the four big mulch piles, shaving off about 1/3 of it.  There’s still plenty of work to do and we’re looking forward to help from the over 100 volunteers …

450 Trees Left to Mulch – Join Us 8/27 & 8/28

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We got a good start on our efforts to mulch over 550 trees in the Polo Grounds area of Zilker Park this past Saturday, but there’s a lot left to do.  Please join us – if you can – on Friday, 8/27 or Saturday, 8/28 – both days from 9 am to noon.  We’ll supply tools, water, and gloves, please …

$300,000 for Barton Springs Bypass Tunnel

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Today at the 5th annual Council Cleans the Pool Day, Senator Kirk Watson, Mayor Lee Leffingwell and Robin Cravey, president of the Friends of Barton Springs Pool, announced the donation of $300,000 to the City of Austin for the forthcoming Barton Springs Pool Bypass Tunnel project.  The project, one of the short term projects announced as part of the Barton …

Work at Wooten Playground

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[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”] Congrats to the Saturday volunteers working out at Wooten (School) Playground laying down grass sod over the new berm that will help a portion of the trail and playground drain a bit better.  The Austin Parks …