March 24 2005

• Planted around house:
  • Pink salvia
  • Rosemary
  • Butterfly bush
  • Creeping rosemary
• Continued rock walk on trail to river
• New septic feild plantings topped with potting soil and bat guano

Posted in 2005 Journal, Habitat

March 13 2005

Planted wetland fringe mix and other seed packets in septic field and approximately 182 square feet on countour in stripe pattern.

Collected dirt from watering hole in draw, forked in with hard pan soil, watered in with Medina soil additive, topped off with a sprinkle of sand and caged 62 feet long and 3 feet high.

Wetland fringe mix includes these species:

• Clasping coneflower
• Cutleaf daisy
• Scarlet sage
• Plains coreopsis
• Illinois bundleflower
• Black-eyed susan
• Pink evening primrose
• Maximillian sunflower
• Obedient plant
• Pitcher sage

Other packets added:

• 2 grams gayfeather
• 5 grams purple coneflower
• 500 mg yellow columbine
• gloriosa sunflower
• 1 gram butterfly weed
• 1 gram western ironweed
• 500 mg texas bluebells
• 1 gram passion flower

Planted lantana seeds along rock edge of road at the edge of septic field

Good weather conditions for newly planted seeds - forecast high 50's for 2 days - rain, high 60's for 3 days - sun

• Increased size of berms in Tipi field
• Began rock trail from barn to river trail

Posted in 2005 Journal, Habitat

November 23 2004

• Cut and mulched junipers below house, made swales
• Planted buffalo grass seed in clearing below house
• Added sand to buffalo grass seed in old trash pile near pole barn
• Made brush piles below house in clearing
• Made water diversion in field at pole barn
• Collected 3 bags of KR

Posted in 2004 Journal, Habitat

October 17 2004

• Logic fire ant bait throughout
• Pulled up KR in road
• Saw many skinks

Posted in 2004 Journal, Census, Habitat, Predator

September 02 2004

May, June July, August and September:

• Removed appox. 1 acre of dense box elders near cypress bee tree
• Removed with chain saw 20 large box elders along river edge
• Pulled up hundreds of small box elders and eliminated China Berries too
• Finished bluff trail
• Beefed up river trail
• Brush pile
• Repaired fence from goat trespassers

Posted in 2004 Journal, Habitat