The Banff Mountain Film Festival and Radical Reels come to Austin at the Paramount Theatre April 5 & 6, hosted by Whole Earth Provision Company. Proceeds benefit Austin Parks Foundation and TreeFolks. More info at wholeearthprovision.com
Banff Mountain Film Festival in Austin – April 5 & 6!
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Categories : April 5 2008, April 6 2008, banff
Rain and Volunteer Thanks…
15 02 2008With rain failing from the sky on this Friday evening, I’m hoping that the volunteer workday out at Turkey Creek Trail @ Emma Long Park doesn’t get rained out, but if it does, at least we’re getting some of the wet stuff. We need it. While I’ve been working out at Gus Fruh Trail @ Barton Creek Greenbelt the last two Saturdays, I can’t help but notice that a general lack of rain in the past few months isn’t a good thing. My fingers are crossed.
In the meantime, I want to recognize all of the volunteers and especially the Central Texas Trail Tamers, who have come out to help us with our Park of the Month workdays beginning in October. We’ve had successful workdays at Pease Park, Brush Square, Country Club Creek Trail, Red Bud Isle, Copperfield Nature Trail and Gus Fruh and Homedale Access Trails on Barton Creek Greenbelt. My thanks to Patrick, Jerry, Kevin, Derly, and Richard!
And of course, a special thanks to all those volunteers hauling rocks, cutting brush, pulling out invasive species and much more. One more Park of the Month Project is coming on March 1st at Norwood Estate and then its the run up to It’s My Park Day on April 12!.
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Categories : volunteer
Tree Planting at Shipe Park
5 02 2008
Thanks to Austin Energy, we’re getting some trees planted in two parks as mitigation for Austin Energy projects that resulted in removal of trees close-by. One is Shipe Park, the other is Pease Park. The trees at Shipe have all been planted and here’s a picture of the crew, plus volunteer Jack Nokes and dog Petey.
Our thanks to APF board member and volunteer Jill Nokes as well as Judy Fowler for Austin Energy for making this happen. The project includes irrigation for the trees as well.
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Categories : Pease Park, Shipe Park, trees
Exploring Mayfield Preserve
3 02 2008

Mayfield Park and Preserve is one of those (out of 206) parks I’ve meaning to explore. I’ve been to events at Mayfield Cottage, but not explored the surrounding preserve. Mayfield is one of the eastern and central preserves are managed by Rene Barrera in the Parks department, a one-man army (if there ever was a one-man army) and a host of volunteers. One of our Friends of Red Bud Isle leaders, Nadene Morning, was telling me of her volunteering out there of late (and the need for footbridge replacements) so I slipped out of the office early on Friday to to check it out.
Mayfield is a wonderful little place, just off West 35th Street and across from a city water treatment plant, it has the cottage, the ponds and gardens (maintained by Friend s of the Parks) and a preserve thick with native trees and lots of non-native ligustrum. Sigh. Another area to work on. Still I was impressed with the sign about natives and invasives at the trail head (see the picture) as well as the beautiful nature of the trails (most in very good shape) and the bridge wash outs looked challenging as well (other picture shows my view from the high side of the trail – its a good 20 feet down.)
I enjoyed my short tour of the trails (I hiked all of the trails in about an hour) and left knowing a little more about another oasis of park land in the heart of Austin
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Categories : invasives, mayfield, preserves



