Join PPLT board members and staff as we prepare a 20+ acre block of habitat for restoration! We will hand clear yaupon.

During the week of June 27, the Texas Conservation Corps will be on-site doing the bulk of the work and we’ll have morning volunteer shifts each day as well as camping. This project is funded by Cornell’s Land Trust Small Grant Program to restore habitat for native birds.

As many of you know, yaupon can easily invade woodland and forest understory in these local ecosystems, choking out diverse ground cover and other woody species, creating a monoculture that does not support diverse wildlife species. By reducing the invading yaupon we are allowing more sunlight to reach the ground and reducing competition with other woody species so that a more diverse habitat is allowed to grow. Follow up treatment, mainly with prescribed fire, will help maintain the restored habitat.

Yours and our safety is of utmost importance, so we are scheduling work during the cooler hours and will have unlimited water and snacks available under a tent, along with ways to cool off. The vast majority of the work is also in the shade. Shifts will be Saturday from 530/6pm until 8pm or dusk and Sunday from 730-11 am. You may also come out during each shift and work as long as you’d like to. Gates will close Sunday by noon.

We ask that you bring loppers and other hand tools, a lot of water, food, sunscreen and bug spray. We also urge you to wear loose fitting, long pants and long sleeved shirts, a hat and closed-toe shoes. There is poison ivy, snakes and bugs to contend with. If you’ll be scouting for nests, you may want a pair of binoculars.

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