Wings of over the Hills Nature Festival
Plans for the debut festival are coming along nicely. Many local organization and voulnteers are already hard at work planning the festival and its many activities. Visit the festival website, Wings over the Hills, for more information, as it becomes available. The festival poster is available here.
New Hill Country Geology Exhibit Taking Shape With Help of Fredericksburg "Rockhounds"
The new geology exhibit, located along the HAT (Handicapped-Accessible Trail) is beginning to take shape. The new display is just to the west of the Butterfuly Garden.
Late last summer and fall, a dedicated group of volunteers labored to prepare an area off the HAT in anticipation of an exhibit that would educate visitors to the Nature Center about the geological history of the Hill Country.
In order to provide a flat area for the display these same volunteers built a large backfilled stone and concrete wall. They then proceeded to line the exhibit walkway with some stonework befitting any geology-lover.
The exhibit, itself, is sponsored and being built by the Fredericksburg Rockhounds, a local gem and mineral club.
Pictured above, risking hernias for us all, are Rockhound members (l. to r.) Frank Rowell, John Crone (also pictured below), Lee Adams, John Farmer (brown shirt), and Frank Roberts. Also helping, but not pictured here, were Glenn Thompson and Ken DeVos.
Now that the Hill Country winter has loosened its grip, look for the completed exhibit some time in the coming weeks.
2009 Year End Newsletter
The 2009 newsletter summarizing the Nature Center activities and news for the year is now available here.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Names Fredericksburg Nature Center as Affiliate
The Fredericksburg Nature Center is honored to have been named an affiliate organization to the the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin.
The Wildflower Center encourages the preservation and use of native plants in all regions of the country through a network of cooperating affiliates. The Fredericksburg Nature Center supports and encourages this preservation and use of native plants by introducing and exposing the public to native plants through a system of trails that is home to nearly 300 species of wildflowers. Many native tress, shrubs, vines, and grasses also make the Nature Center their home. It also provides a free public program series that provides education about native plants and related natural resources.
Visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center website to learn more about it and its affiliated organizations.
