Red Bud Isle Visitors Lift Their Limbs…

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Over the past two weeks, volunteers lead by Nadene Morning as well as American Youthworks E-Corps have been removing more invasive (non-native) trees on Red Bud Isle.  As a result, over 95 percent of the invasives have now been removed, but the amount of brush piled up along the trails was huge.  Thanks to a few signs encouraging park users …

Day 2: Red Bud Isle Project

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E-Corps and Rico from PARD made tremendous progress on Tuesday, with three rows of rock steps put into place, the first way down into the water (they got there very early to dig out the rock and dirt.) It’s looking good!  Another four folks are working on removing and treating all of the invasive tree stumps that we cut on …

Zilker one of 8 Great Urban Parks

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I was on a trip to Washington DC this past week and opened my NWA WorldTraveler magazine to see if any of the 8 great urban parks profiled in the cover story were in Austin.  And number 7 was Zilker Park with a picture of Barton Springs Pool!  Here’s the link.