In the wake of the Memorial Day 2015 floods that roared through Central Texas, people in the Hill Country are left grappling with the aftermath. Images of hundred-year-old cypress trees, stripped bare of their bark and ripped up from their roots, inevitably turn our minds to our creeks and rivers and prompts the question- what can we do to heal our streamsides?
In the wake of the Memorial Day 2015 floods that roared through Central Texas, people in the Hill Country are left grappling with the aftermath. Images of hundred-year-old cypress trees, stripped bare of their bark and ripped up from their roots, inevitably turn our minds to our creeks and rivers and prompts the question- what can we do to heal our streamsides?
This first in a series of Recovery Workshops has been planned to help landowners identify the steps they can take to improve the health of their riparian areas (where the river and land intersect). Each workshop will include 1 hour of discussion indoors followed by a 1 hour field trip.
Wednesday, June 10th 9:30 – 11:30 am
Old Blanco Courthouse in the City of Blanco
Thursday, June 11th 5-7 pm
Turkey Hollow Ranch in Burnett Ranches subdivision (rsvp for directions)
Friday, June 12th 8 am breakfast, 9-11 am workshop
Wimberley Community Center
These workshops are being coordinated in partnership of The Nature Conservancy, the Hill Country Alliance, the Texas Forest Service, Hays County Master Naturalists, the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Speakers include representatives from Texas Forest Service, and Steve Nelle, retired Natural Resource Conservation Service State Wildlife Biologist. Speakers will cover the do’s and don’ts of riparian recovery.
Email Rachael Ranft rranft@tnc.org or call Vanessa Martin (512) 623-7249 for more information.
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Post-Flood Riparian Recovery Workshops Planned for Wimberley and Blanco Communities
