The Greenbelt Guardians began our 13th year of service last Saturday by participating once again in the Austin Park Foundation’s annual citywide It’s My Park Day event. We worked at the Barton Creek Greenbelt Gus Fruh access, had 65 participants, and contributed a total of 189 hours of volunteer labor. Major accomplishments included:

• cleanup and weeding of the trailhead area and entry trail
• re-grading sections of the entry and switchback trails for better water management
• repairs to the granite surface of the entry and switchback trails
• removal of invasive ligustrum and nandina plants and berries
• trash pickup

Photos from Saturday (as well as most of our other past workdays) are here: https://picasaweb.google.com/greenbeltguardians/20150307WorkdayGusFruhIMPD

Thanks to all of our great volunteers (including groups from Amy’s Ice Cream and HDR Engineering), our GG team leaders, and our CoA partners from Parks & Rec and Park Rangers. We had a good workday and got a lot done!

Our next scheduled workday is on Saturday June 6, 2015 – National Trails Day, so please get than on your calendar and plan on joining us!

Thanks,

Stan