Over 130 volunteers came out on Thu, Fri and Sat mornings to help us shovel, haul and spread mulch under another 100 or so trees. Meantime, arborists continue to perform root zone invigorations on 90 trees, they nearly halfway done with the work and given our recent rains (including a rain shower early this afternoon), we’re hoping that the …
Register for National Public Lands Day – 9/25 @ Barton Creek Greenbelt
We’re a little more than a week away from National Public Lands Day and we’re looking for another 100 volunteers. You get coffee, lunch and a cool t-shirt with the design shown here. You help us with invasive species removal, trail work and rock work and even some trash pickup. Please join us. Sign up here
First of many workdays at Bull Creek Trail
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.
Bull Creek Volunteer Clean-up/Trail Repair workday
Our friends at Bull Creek Foundation need help for the first of many workdays required to clean-up and rebuild the trail along Bull Creek Greenbelt due to record flooding (over 15 feet!) First workday is Sat, 9/11 from 9 am to noon. We will gather at the paved parking lot East of Hwy 360 on Old Spicewood Springs Road – …
Thanks to our Mulching Volunteers at Republic
Our thanks to Daniel and his crew of volunteers for spreading a big truckload of mulch on Saturday – the Auction Oaks and all of our plants will be a lot happier with the Rain on Friday, mulch on Sat and more rain (a lot more) today.
Halfway Done With Zilker Tree Mulching
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
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
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 …
Volunteer Mulching at Zilker – first 100 cubic yards
Wow – over 60 volunteers and four parks forestry staff spread 100 cubic yards of mulch under 75+ trees in an hour and a half at Zilker Park today. Thanks to our great volunteers and staff for their help. But we still have over 450 trees left to do! We’ll be out spreading more mulch with Parks Dept staff next …
Zilker Mulch-o-rama Part 1 this Sat 9-12
We have 53 people signed up for mulching at Zilker this Saturday, from 9 am to noon. We’ll meeting at the first parking lot on the right (enter the road where you go to park for the pool, but bear right (and up) and look for us (lots of tools and wheelbarrows) We need more volunteers and more wheelbarrows too …