Hill Country Conservancy and Emerging Professionals in Conservationinvite you to our 2nd Anniversary Celebration!

Thursday, January 28th
5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Sanctuary Printshop
4201 South Congress Avenue, Suite 317
Austin, TX 78745
Please join us for Appetizers, Beverages, and Live Music
Plus the unveiling of the 2010 Event Calendar
Confirm your Membership for 2010 and receive a free voucher
for an upcoming Lunch [...]

What do Austin swimmers and salamanders have in common? Barton Springs! Find out how the City of Austin plans to spend 6.2 million dollars to preserve and improve our local swimming hole. Photo Credit

We’ve just posted some great new projects, so head on over to the volunteer page and check ‘em out.

Assist with Bank Stabilization at the Nalle Bunny Run Preserve. Volunteers will be lifting rocks to slow erosion and damage on the shoreline. This is a family friendly volunteer opportunity!

We’re looking for your favorite Hill Country photos to feature on the HCC website. The winning photo will be used as the header for next months newsletter and will be made available for download on our homepage!

Over 300 volunteers rolled out of bed early last Saturday morning to come out and clean-up the Greenbelt. Thank you all for the wonderful work you did!

Enjoy helping HCC protect open space? Consider signing up for our Volunteer SMS Alerts. Simpy text “HCC” to 62407 and we’ll send you a brief text message when a new HCC volunteer event comes up.

Hill Country Conservancy thanks REI for their support of habitat restoration at Nalle Bunny Run Wildlife Preserve

As part of our mission to spread awareness about water quality issues, Andrea and Cheyenne recently made a trip to Circle C where they gave an exciting presentation about the Hill Country at Clayton Elementary.

For the first installment of our Hill Country Reflections Series, we bring you a video filmed some years ago about Storm Ranch.