Two more workdays to tempt our volunteers for Sat, 2/19. At Pease Park from 9 am to noon, volunteers will plant 65 trees. Meet at Kingsburg end of Pease Park. At West Bouldin Creek from 8:30 am to 1 pm, Invasive Species Removal efforts will continue. Meet at the S. 6th St entrance. Both parks will have big It’s My Park Day events, you can volunteer here for Pease Park and here for West Bouldin Creek on 3/5.
One more West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt Workday on Sat, 5/22 @ 8:30 am. Join the parks committee and other volunteers and pull out a few more invasive trees and plants before summer really sets in….
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| West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt – S. 6th St entrance
Help the Bouldin Creek Parks Committee remove invasive species, plant |
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| May 22, 2010 8:30AM |
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. We tackled the area between the creek and the BMX area, stripping it clean of primarily ligustrum with a few chinaberries and nandina plants thrown in.
I left West Bouldin around 11:30 am to get some different tools and wheelbarrows for the afternoon’s activity of hauling and spreading 8 cubic yards of good quality mulch in our planting beds under the auction oaks. Thanks to our 7 volunteers (we expected a lot more based on RSVPs) we got the jog done, but we’re tried as the tempature climbed above 80 and we were working mostly in the sun. Before the workday started I took some photos of the Famer’s market at Republic Square.
It’s going to be a really nice weekend – why not get a workout and help some of Austin’s parks at the same time?
Among the volunteer events scheduled are:
West Bouldin Creek – invasive removal – 8:30 am to 1 pm – Sat
Republic Square – weeding, watering and mulching – 1 to 4 pm – Sat
and more check our volunteer page for a complete list.
This 8 cubic yard pile awaits spreading at Republic Square
Super Invasive Volunteer Jerry demonstrates weed wrench use
Thanks to the Bouldin Neighborhood Parks Committee for hosting their second monthly volunteer workday. We continued to pull out or cut down Invasive species in the greenbelt as part of City approved restoration plan. We focused on the “big 3″ – ligustrum, chinaberry and nandina.
Building the winrow
We were aided by Parks Committee Sal who brought his landscaping crew to take out some of the bigger trees. Volunteers worked with hand saws, loppers and weed wrenches and stacked the invasives into winrows to minimize the spread of seeds. The next volunteer workday is Sat, Feb 20 from 8:30 am to 1 pm. Snacks are served and they were yummy (breakfast tacos and later pizza.)
Building another winrow
completed winrow
The West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt workday has been rescheduled from last Saturday (1/16) to this Saturday (1/23) from 8:30 to 1 pm. We’ll meet at the South 6th Street entrance to the greenbelt. – Link to park page and map:
http://www.austinparks.org/apfweb/park.php?parkId=374
We’ll be bring some tools, but if you have handsaws, shovels or rakes, please bring those. We also recommend wearing boots, long pants, long-sleeved shirt and gloves as protection against poison ivy (though it is somewhat dormant right now). Please join us and help restore the natural health and vitality of the greenbelt.
Coffee & tacos in the morning and refreshment at the end of the work session will be provided. Please RSVP to Ingrid @ urpprods@earthlink.net so we know how many tacos to order.
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. This is one of a series of recommendations from a recently completed LBJ Wildflower Center Study for improving and restoring the greenbelt. Here’s a photo along S. 6th of the big pile of invasives removed (a number of large chinaberry trees along with ligustrum and nandina) awaiting pickup by solid waste services. They will be turned into mulch and/or dillo dirt. Congrats to Ingrid and the Bouldin Creek Parks committee!
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