These signs are starting to appear where the Parks Dept and volunteers are doing invasive species removal and restoration projects. Â We are working on getting more of these produced with our phone number and website and placed in active areas where we are doing projects. Thanks to Rene B for all of his great work.
Thanks to Pearson, Dell employees
Over 70 volunteers from Pearson and Dell joined Kyle and Charlie from the Austin Parks Foundation, along with Parks staff John and Matt (wielding chainsaws and cutting up lots of big stuff) out at Zilker Access on Barton Creek Greenbelt on Friday to build better more compact windrows as well as haul out big logs for chipping. Despite the rumble …
Thanks to our volunteers and sponsors
It was hot, it was sweaty, it was tough work, but we’re grateful to our 300 plus volunteers for coming out and helping us get rid of a few thousand invasive trees of the ligustrum, chinaberry and nandina variety! A heartfelt thanks to our partners Hill Country Conservancy, EarthShare of Texas, REI, American Youthworks E-Corps, Greenbelt Guardians, Austin Ridge Riders, …
Reusing Ligustrum (a common invasive in our parks)
One of our amazing volunteers, Jerry Levenson who has cut down or yanked out tens of thousands of non-native ligustrum, chinaberry and nandina in the past two years, is also a skilled woodworker, so he had some extra ligustrum and brought it into his shop and presto! We’re pretty darned impressed!
Saturday round-up: West Bouldin, Farmer’s Market, Republic
Busy day in Austin’s parks – in the morning, I went to help out with another volunteer day at West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt. Ingrid, Matt and the rest of Bouldin volunteers were out removing invasives and stacking them into winrows, other volunteers were mulching the trees in and around the BMX area. Â We tackled the area between the creek and …
Invasive Trees and Plants Fall at West Bouldin Creek
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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. Â This is one of a series of recommendations from a recently completed LBJ Wildflower Center Study for improving and restoring the greenbelt. Â Here’s a photo along S. 6th of the big pile of …
Invasive Species Removal at Pease
Thanks to efforts from the neighborhood, an invasive tree removal project has begun at Pease Park on the hillside between Parkway and Windsor Rds. Â Funded by donations from a number of neighbors, American Youthworks Enivornmental Corps staff will be cutting down ligustrum, chinaberry and nandina, treating them so they don’t resprout, chipping up all of the brush and laying down …
Shoal Creek and Pease a Little Less Invasive
Between Friday Oct 17 and Sat Oct 18, we had over 60 volunteers come out and help us cut down and peel back a lot of chinaberry trees as well as numerous vines, weeds and other items along a stretch of the Shoal Creek Greenbelt and Pease Park, from roughly Kingsbury St where the hike and bike bridge crosses the …
Starbucks at Red Bud Isle on Earth day!
Earth day, on Tuesday, April 22 was a hot and humid day at Red Bud Isle. We made fantastic progress at this off-leash dog park with over 95 volunteers from Starbucks stores around Austin working a total of 205 hours, with many invasive trees cut and hauled, coffee grounds and mulching in the main field completed and the digging and …
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