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Volunteers Improve Habitat along Comanche Creek
Local volunteer, Tony Plutino, uses a hack-and-squirt method to control Chinaberry trees. This method, used effectively to control over 100 Chinaberry trees at the Llano River TTU Field Station last year, informed this recent project at Fort Mason City Park.
(June 29th, 2018) – Over the past year, volunteers have worked together to improve the habitat along Comanche Creek in Fort Mason City Park. Landowners, high school students from the Pioneers program, and city park staff have worked with partnering organizations to control Chinaberry trees and enhance the native plant community along the creek. When diverse, healthy plant communities thrive along the banks of creeks or rivers—also known as the riparian zone—they reduce erosion and flo ...
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