Greenbelt Guardians Workday

07/19/2008

Here’s a chance to show how much we REALLY LOVE the Barton Creek Greenbelt – come out and work with fellow volunteers in this stunning heat!  Greenbelt Guardians plan to bring cold watermelon snacks as enticement (plus the usual tacos, energy drinks and bars and water). Volunteers will be starting an hour earlier than usual to enjoy the moderate morning temperature. Plan to meet at 8:00 am at the sign-in table by the trail entry for Homedale Trail, 2010 Homedale Drive, across from the parking lot of Barton Hills Elementary School.

Projects include: some re-grading and drainage work to do on the entry trail section to the kiosk, in preparation for resurfacing with the granite/polymer mix on our work day in the fall. We always have weed-eating and weed management to do in that section of the trail also.

Invasives removal and restoration area upstream of the rock flats still has plenty of ligustrum and nandina to offer up. It is wonderful to walk this cleared area and see all of the native plants filling in the blank spaces, sprouting from the long dormant seed bank now that they have sunlight exposure. As well as doing invasives removal work, we will also be doing data collection and documentation for these restoration areas.

There’s also more old ranch barbed wire to remove. And there is always the ample supply of beer cans and snack wraps and cigarette butts to remove. Sweat equity will have a whole new meaning at the end of the morning (they say it’s good for us)!

Please RSVP so organizers have plenty of energy food, plus some special surprises being provided by the Austin Parks Foundation.

Date: July 19th 

Time:  8:00am-noon

Location:  Homedale Trail Entrance, 2010 Homedale Drive (Central Austin – 78704)

Contact:  gleeful@earthlink.net