A one-day workshop in Salado, Texas, on November 21, 2023, 8am-4:30pm. Training focuses on the nature and function of stream and riparian zones and the benefits and direct impacts from healthy riparian zones.
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Join NPSOT-Williamson County on Thursday, May 12, 2022, when our featured topic will be Riparian Management, Why Creeks Act the Way They Do with Ricky Linex. Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM.
In person, we’re at the Georgetown Public Library, 2nd floor. If you attend in person, you are giving consent to be videoed for Zoom and YouTube (if the meeting is to be posted on YouTube).
About our topic: This presentation goes into the relationships of riparian areas to the uplands that provide water to the riparian areas and the importance of good land stewardship for the maintenance of healthy creeks and rivers. I will show several native riparian plants and discuss a strength rating of each plant as well as its wetland indicator rating which shows how much wetness a plant can tolerate. We will discuss what goes wrong when vegetation and landform cannot support the excessive amounts of water provided to the creeks, say from overgrazing or urban growth, and how erosion results. We will show how creeks can be restored by removing the hindrances that created the problem.
Ricky has provided a handout for his presentation (see this link) listing riparian plants of north central Texas including their strength ratings and wetland indicator ratings.
About our speaker: Ricky Linex retired in 2021 as a wildlife biologist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service and works as a range and wildlife consultant. With NRCS, Ricky worked 52 counties in north central Texas covering the Rolling Plains, Cross Timbers, Blackland Prairie and Post Oak Savannah vegetational regions. He worked 38.5 years with NRCS in Goldthwaite, Snyder, Abilene and Weatherford. Ricky is the author of Range Plants of North Central Texas, A Land Users Guide to Their Identification, Value and Management, a plant identification book for Texas. Range Plants was recognized in 2015 as an outstanding publication by the Texas Chapter-The Wildlife Society, the Native Plant Society of Texas and the Texas Section-Society for Range Management.
At every meeting, we give away a book — about native plants or the meeting topic — to one randomly chosen meeting attendee!
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NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public. We hope you attend! Meetings may be in person, virtual, or both, so be sure to check details in the meeting announcement. Meetings are announced on our website, our calendar and Facebook.
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