Floodplains are the low-lying areas next to creeks and rivers that are subject to flooding. Maybe most of us think about floodplains just in terms of their risk for flooding. If you’ve lived in Central Texas for more than a couple of years, you’re aware that our area is frequently subject to heavy rains which…

For the last month of 2021, we thought it would be interesting to review what amateur naturalists have observed in the Bull Creek parks and watershed over the past year. You can see these observations in iNaturalist in a project called Bull Creek Austin Texas (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/bull-creek-austin-texas2(11.8%)). In 2021, 271 observers logged over 2,600 observations of 774 unique…

A major focus of the Bull Creek Foundation’s work is the removal of invasive tree species from the parklands around Bull Creek. Working with community volunteers, we pull up small trees by hand or lever them out with weed wrenches. For larger trees, we use cutting tools to remove a strip of bark around the…