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Field Trip: January 1, Tree Walk at Old Settlers Park

— by Gary Bowers

What: Start the new year with a tree walk in the park! Led by Gary Bowers.
Where: Old Settlers Park, 3017–3099 Whitlow Way, Round Rock
When: 10:00am-Noon on January 1, 2024
Our field trip is free and open to the public.

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We’ll meet in the parking area at the Virgil Rabb Pavilion off of Whitlow Way, in Old Settlers Park. From there we will walk around the pavilion to the nature trail. The walk will be around 2 miles and take 2 hours. We will focus on tree identification during dormancy, discuss different areas of the park (riparian, meadow), and overall enjoy being outside on the first day of the year.

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Meeting point and parking. Rabb Pavilion, Old Settlers Park, Round Rock, TX.
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Nov 9’s Guest Presentation Available, “Rare Plants of Williamson County” with Bill Carr

Although Bill Carr’s presentation at our last chapter meeting on November 9, 2023 was not recorded for YouTube, with Bill’s permission we are able to share a copy of his slides with you.

Click this link to access our Dropbox with Bill’s Update on the Flora and Rare Plants of Williamson County.

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Scarlet Clematis/Scarlet Leatherflower, Clematis texensis. Photo by Gary Bowers. Global Rank G3G4.
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Landfill Pollinator Garden Workday, Sunday, Dec 10, 2023

Join us for a workday at the landfill pollinator garden on Sunday, December 10, 2023, from 9:30am to 11:30am. Bring a hat, boots, gloves and water. We’ll be spreading mulch (hopefully) so if you have wheelbarrows, shovels, and maybe garden rakes to bring, it will help make things go more quickly.

Signup at this link:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4AADAC28A5F58-46506728-pollinator#/

About the garden: The Pollinator Garden is a collaboration of the NPSOT-Wilco chapter, Good Water Master Naturalists, and Williamson County Waste Management, located at the entrance to the Williamson County Landfill, at the corner of FM 1660 and Landfill Road in Hutto, TX, across from the Recycling Center. The garden includes a Monarch Waystation and is a Certified Texas Wildscape. Volunteers help maintain the garden when the collaborating organizations announce a maintenance work day.  Anyone interested is invited to help!

image of large native plant garden