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|  NatureFest 2009 October 24th - Bastrop,TX Fisherman's Park
Earth Day Dedication at Lost Pines Nature Trails Wednesday April 22, 3-7 pm The thirty acres along the Colorado River formerly known as the Old Tahitian Quarry has received a new name and a facelift. Now known as the Lost Pines Nature Trails, the property is owned by the Bastrop County Water Control & Improvement District #2 and has become a restoration project for Environmental Stewardship. In celebration of Earth Day, April 22, the public is invited to the trail dedication and to walk the trails from 3-7 pm, with a chamber ribbon cutting at 5:30. The site is located one mile past the golf course on Riverside Drive. Music and finger food will also be provided and several Texas Master Naturalists will be on board for walking tours. Press Release. Driving directions to LPNT.
Environmental Stewardship Finalist for Envision Central Texas Community Stewardship Award Envision Central Texas 2009 Community Stewardship Awards will be announced at a luncheon on Friday, May 8 honoring the innovative people, projects and processes that are helping to preserve and enhance our region’s quality of life, natural resources and economic vitality. Environmental Stewardship is a finalist for the Raising Public Awareness Award.
TPWD features Lost Pines Nature Trails on PBS
EAGLE SCOUT PROJECT BENEFITS LOST PINES Eagle Scout Aidan Branch builds nature trails in Bastrop 
BASTROP, TX - April, 2009 On Saturday September 6, Eagle Scout candidate Aidan Branch lead a crew of fellow scouts and volunteers to build a new trail at the Lost Pines Nature Trails site in Bastrop, Texas. To earn the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America program, a scout is required to organize and lead a community project. Life Scout Branch with Troop 88 from Austin elected to build a trail in Bastrop. With guidance from his Scout Master Sam Brister and veteran trail builder Dale Morrison, Aidan wrote his project proposal which was accepted by his Eagle Committee, laid out the trail, determined the equipment needed, and organized volunteers to give him a hand building the trail. Aidan will be awarded the Eagle Scout badge at his awards banquet being held May 4, 2009 at the Memorial United Methodist Church 6100 Berkman Dr., Austin, TX 78723 . Click here for more information
Bastrop Springs designated "Significant Landmark"  BASTROP, TX - September 9, 2008. Bastrop City Council voted to designate the Bastrop Springs located at the foot of Pine Street as a Significant Landmark after the Bastrop Historic Landmark Commission submitted a request in order to protect the springs. A group of local partners will work with the Bastrop Park Department to restore the springs to a more natural condition and provide interpretive signage to inform the public about the historic and ecological significance of the springs. Early traveler stopped to water at the springs as they traveled the El Camino Real Trail which passed through Bastrop crossing the Colorado River.
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| One Earth - One HomeMankind has only one home, the Earth. We have a stewardship responsibility to restore and maintain the Earth and its resources to a level that will sustain life both now and far into the future.  Our activities are having an impact on critical processes that balance the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosphere. Natural laws that govern environmental conditions on earth are being pushed to threshold points; triggering natural corrective events. Whether we will continue to enjoy the abundance of the earth, or endure the extremes, will depend on how well we manage our activities relative to the earth’s resources. To manage the earth’s resources to the sustainable benefit of its inhabitants, we must work on a local-global basis to solve the problems that challenge mankind. There are many examples where vision, knowledge and resources have been brought together to reverse recent trends. We have the opportunity to accept this responsibility and join together to return our communities to a path of sustainable stewardship. | | The Lower Colorado River Basin and Bay System "We came to the river, which has a guard on either side of luxuriant trees, nut trees, ash trees, poplars, elms, willows, mulberries and wild grapevines much taller and thicker than those of Castile. It has sand banks which mark how high it rises, a quarter of a league wide. The water is of the best we have found" — The Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre Expedition of 1709.  The Colorado River is the largest river entirely within the state of Texas. Almost 600 billion gallons of water flow through the Colorado's 900-mile course from its source in the Texas Panhandle to Matagorda Bay where it flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The river's drainage basin spans more than 42,000 square miles — about 16 percent of the total area of Texas.
Though we will never return to the El Monte Grande we have the opportunity to manage the Colorado River system in a manner that restores the luxuriant forest and provides access to clear, fishable, swimable water that once again attracts people to the river and to the region. The rivers, streams, aquifers and land resources of the basin and bay system are the lifeblood of Central Texas.
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