Wood Glen - May 2012

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Official Publication of the Wood Glen Property Owners Association May 2012 - Volume 6, Issue 5

LETTER from the PRESIDENTGreetings Wood Glen Neighbors,

It looks like summer may very well come to us as early as the spring season did! The neighborhood is really greening up, temperatures are rising quickly, and I’m now hearing lawn mowers somewhere almost every day. People are already swimming at the pool too! I don’t know about you but I didn’t really need the extra work this early in the year. I can only hope that the rainfall continues to come our way and that we don’t face another summer like the one we had last year.

The Board has really been in planning mode for the past couple of months so there are just a few things to update for the May edition of the newsletter.The Rasberry “Crazy” Ant project is well

underway and many of you have probably met (or at least seen) Wizzie Brown or her associates probing the neighborhood for these critters. She was at my house recently (yes, I have them too) and I learned quite a bit from her. What I initially thought were “Crazy” ants turned out not to be “Crazy” ants at all. I was looking at an ant mound and she informed me that these ants don’t build mounds. They house themselves under natural cover, under concrete slabs, or inside of utility pedestals. Also, they are very, very small. I got a close up look at one and they are not nearly as large as the ants we normally find in our yard. So, the fact that they don’t mound and their size are two clues on what to look for and where to look to find these little guys. I’ve gotten

several inquiries from residents thinking they’ve found these ants and asking what they should do about them. Our standing advice has been to go ahead and treat them with an ‘off the shelf ’ ant bait product that specifically mentions this species on the label. If the project team has contacted you specifically about applying the ant bait (being tested) in your yard then you should let the trial progress and not treat that particular spot. The primary focus, at this point, is containment and stopping the spread of these colonies with eradication being secondary.

Another educational opportunity came our way recently from Wood Glen resident Janet White. She took the time to speak to the Board, at the March meeting, informing us about the Oak Wilt problem in the area and the potential for spreading this disease.

While we don’t have a documented Oak Wilt issue within the boundaries of Wood Glen, there are identified sites within the Round Rock city limits and neighboring Travis County which is a real hotspot for this fungus. On Janet’s recommendation we have undertaken a small project to educate residents on how best to avoid having their trees infected. We have already sent out an “eblast” regarding this issue and you will be receiving a pamphlet in the mail, sometime in late April, that explains the disease and identifies the primary “Do’s & Don’t’s” to avoid being affected. I learned, for example, that we shouldn’t be pruning our Oak trees from February through June as this is the time

when the fungal spores are most active and infections likely to take place. Also, it is critical to sanitize cutting tools used for pruning to prevent infecting otherwise healthy trees and to use pruning spray on freshly cut or wounded trees. I think the most likely threat comes from outside the neighborhood. Most of us use tree trimming services, at some point, but I wonder how many of us have asked them about what precautions they take to avoid the spread of Oak Wilt. I’m willing to bet not many of them take the time to sanitize their tools between jobs but we should start asking them to before we allow them to start working. The key here is creating awareness and prevention. If we ever get this disease in the neighborhood it will be extremely difficult and expensive to get rid of it, if that is even possible. So please keep Oak Wilt in mind, plan your tree trimming to avoid the February - June time frame, and make it a priority to make sure contractors are aware of your concerns and act accordingly. We will be posting a sign at the main entrance, in the near future, to create awareness around the Oak Wilt problem.

Thanks go out to Gloria Gomez and Darlene Snow, from the Social Committee. The Easter Egg hunt and festivities were very well attended and the garage sale seemed to be a great success. We appreciate their hard work! They do need volunteers!

Also, many of you probably saw that the mailboxes located at the Amenity Center were “tagged” with spray paint in early April.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORSPresident: Eric Boren ....................... [email protected] President: Julie Cowan ............................. [email protected]: Wayne Solum ............................. [email protected]: Lela Solum [email protected] 1: Eric Boren ........................ [email protected] 2: Sean Copeland [email protected] 3: Julie Cowan [email protected] 4: Mark Murray [email protected] 5: Donna Tucker ............... [email protected] 6: Rod Kerr [email protected] 7: Christopher Loft [email protected] at Large: Wayne Solum ................ [email protected]

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Modifications: Sam Myers ................. [email protected]/Amenity Center Julie Cowan ............................................ [email protected] / Greenbelt: Karen Fischer ..............................................kfischer4@att.netSocial Events: Gloria Gomez ....................... [email protected]: Donna Tucker ........................... [email protected] ..........................................................donnate@austin.rr.comAnt Bait Control Program: Leslie Myers [email protected] Care Calendar: Denise Ferguson ............................. [email protected] Committee: David & Elaine Lloyd [email protected]

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NEWSLETTER INFOEditor Donna Tucker [email protected] Peel, Inc. ...................... www.PEELinc.com, 512-263-9181 [email protected], 512-263-9181

Goodwin Management, Inc.11149 Research Blvd. Suite 100

Austin, TX 78759-5227, Tel: (512) 502-7509Fax: (512) 346-4873, Cell: (512) 750-2883

Letter from the President..(Continued From Cover Page)A resident reported the incident to the Board and I filed a police report and was working to notify the Postal Service when I was informed that a gentleman had already scrubbed the paint off and cleaned it up. I have no idea who this person is but want to publicly thank him for taking the initiative to do what he did. That’s a good neighbor for you! Kudos to you sir!

Most of you should know by now that the City of Round Rock has lifted the water restrictions that have been in place for several months. Recent rains thankfully filled up Lake Georgetown replenishing our primary supply. A new tiered pricing structure has been approved for water rates though and residents are advised to be aware of it. I’m afraid higher water rates are here to stay and watering smarter and doing with less will be the prevailing strategy going forward. We might as well get the irrigation systems tuned up and a plan in place to adjust to the new “normal”.

That’s it for this month folks. Let’s hope forcontinuing rain and a mild summer for our future! - Eric

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WOOD GLEN CARES!We Care Calendar for Wood Glen. What is it: The Care Calendar

is an online calendar. If you have a special need (for example, you have a new baby and few meals would be very helpful) you would contact me either by phone (671-8467) or my email [email protected]. I would then set up the calendar with your needs (meals) and the times/dates that the meals would be needed. Families in our neighborhood would be made aware of your need. Families who are able to help would then go online, pull up the calendar and fill in the date and the meal they would be providing. Or you could call me with the information and I would be happy to fill in the calendar with the information. Very easy! If you have any questions please call me.

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tournament was held on April 18th at the beautiful Flintrock Falls golf course in Lakeway. This event is always a special one for the Austin-based, non-profit foundation, as it was the very first event that Colin’s Hope hosted after setting out on its mission to raise water safety awareness to prevent childhood drownings. This year as every year since its inception many loyal golfers teed up to spend their day in support of the charity’s mission, kicking off swim season with a great reminder of how to swim safely and enjoy the water this summer!

Today, nearly four years after the founding of Colin’s Hope, many ask about the “success” or “impact” of the foundation. Defining “success” with a vision like that of Colin’s Hope: a world where children do not drown, can be a challenge…when the loss of even one child’s life is too many. However, the impact on our community that Colin’s Hope has had is something that can begin to be measured now,

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drowning prevention in the Austin-area and has made a name for itself in Central Texas, statewide and even nationally. This year the foundation received the Member Agency of the Year award and the Innovative Program of the Year award from Safe Kids Austin for its drowning prevention work. Colin’s Hope also co-chairs the Central Texas Water Safety Coalition Board and holds a place on the Safe Kids Austin Board. The charity’s message that “drowning is preventable” can be found all over our community during swim season, including Reagan billboards, more than 80 Peel, Inc. community newsletters, radio spots and numerous local TV interviews. Colin’s Hope hosts several events that are now well-known and much anticipated, including the Kids’ Triathlon and the Got2Swim open water swim in Lake Austin. These events draw lots of publicity and connect the foundation with

its target audience: children, their parents and the swimming community. Olympic swimmers Brendan Hansen, Garrett Weber-Gale and Kathleen Hersey continue to support Colin’s Hope and, together with Nitro Swimming, hosted a Colin’s Hope Got2Swim clinic in January to both raise funds and teach children better ways to swim safely. The foundation’s list of community, statewide and national partners has grown exponentially. Colin’s Hope grows stronger, smarter and more influential through its partnerships with organizations like Schlitterbahn, Pool Safely, Safe Kids, the YMCA, The Expedition School, World Water Park Association and the City of Austin, just to name a few.

But there is no better way to see the impact of Colin’s Hope than through its annual Water Safety Walk. In its first year in 2010, Colin’s Hope distributed 5,000 water safety packets containing information on water safety and

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drowning prevention, including its 7 key water safety tips and a Water Guardian badge. In 2010, 50,000 packets were distributed, and the 2012 Water Safety Walk will reach 75,000 homes! Distribution of the packets has been focused in the zip codes identified as having the highest incidence of drownings in the Austin area, and, since the information was delivered, the number of drowning deaths in many of these areas has DROPPED TO ZERO! Now THAT feels like success…because if even one child is safe and alive today because of its efforts and the impact that Colin’s Hope has made, isn’t that exactly what the foundation set out to do?

Fortunately, they get to keep on doing just that…protecting children and keeping them safer in the water…through the support of the golfers, sponsors, prize donors and volunteers who generously donated time, energy and money to make the 4th Annual Colin’s Hope Classic another tremendous success. Prizes were awarded for the top 3 scoring teams, as well as for longest drive, longest putt and closest to the pin, however, the real winners on this day were the children and families Colin’s Hope works to protect!

The founders’ son, Colin Holst, drowned in an Austin-area public pool in 2008 at the age of 4. Colin’s Hope was started in his honor and, on tournament day, he was remembered time and again… as everyone agreed it was, as Colin used to say, “the best day ever!”

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Wood GlenTHE UNINVITED GUEST – OAK WILT

Pruning oak trees from February through June invites one of the most destructive tree diseases in the United States. Oak wilt is killing oak trees in central Texas at epidemic proportions. Incidence of the disease in Williamson County alone is alarming with the heaviest concentration west of IH35. Wood Glen is prime for Oak Wilt which can destroy every red oak and infect many live oaks in the subdivision. The disease travels at a rate of 75 to 150 feet per year. Imagine our subdivision without its lovely oak trees. Imagine your home on a lot with no trees! Imagine the decline of property values if the oak trees were gone!

All oaks are susceptible to oak wilt to some degree; some species are affected more than others. Red oaks particularly Spanish oak, Shumard oak and blackjack oak are extremely susceptible and may play a unique role in the establishment of new oak wilt infections. White oaks, including post oak, bur oak, and chinkapin oak are less susceptible to the fungus. Live oaks are intermediate in susceptibility to oak wilt but are seriously affected due to their tendency to grow from root sprouts and form vast interconnected root systems that allow movement (and spread) of the fungus to adjacent oak trees.

A symptom of the disease may present as veinal necrosis. Leaves on the tree begin to show chloratic (yellow) discoloration down the veins in the leaf, veins eventually turning brown. These leaves can be found under the tree for months after defoliation. In red oaks the foliar symptoms are less distinct in early spring, young leaves simply wilt, turning pale green and brown. Mature leaves develop dark green water soaking symptoms or turn pale green or bronze, starting at the leaf margins and progressing inward.

A reliable indicator for diagnosis of oak wilt is the presence of fungal mats. These spore-producing structures most often form in spring on red oaks that developed advanced symptoms of oak wilt the previous

late summer or fall. Red oak infections in late spring and summer usually do not give rise to fungal mats due to high temperatures and low soil moisture conditions. Fungal mats can be found by looking for inconspicuous narrow cracks in the bark of dying red oaks leading to hollow areas between the bark and wood. Often there is a distinctive odor similar to fermenting fruit associated with the fungal mat. This mat can be exposed by removing the loosened bark.

Red oaks play a key role in the establishment of new infection centers. The oak wilt fungus may be spread by an insect (nitidulid beetle) or by man through movement of wood from infected red oaks to other locations. Fungal mats form beneath the bark of certain diseased red oaks in late fall and especially in spring, but do form on live oaks. Individual fungal mats produce spore for only a few weeks. The fruity odor characteristic to the fungal mat attracts many kinds of insects, the most important of which is the sap sucking nitidulid beetle. The fungus may be transmitted by the small beetles as they emerge from mats and visit fresh wounds on healthy trees, both red oaks and live oaks. The time of the year between the first of February to the end of June is prime for these insects to infect fresh cuts on trees. These fungal mats can also form on logs, stumps and fresh firewood cut from diseased red oaks.

Live oaks tend to grow in large dense groups (called motts) with interconnected roots. The fungus may be transmitted from one tree to another through these root connections. Root transmission is a proven means of spread from one live oak to another. The result is patches of dead and dying trees which form infection centers among live oaks in Texas and spread at an average rate of 75 ft. per year, varying from no spread to 150 ft. in any one direction. Occasionally the oak wilt fungus is transmitted through connected roots between red oaks but movement through roots is slower in red oaks and occurs over shorter distances than in live oaks.

THERE ARE 3 APPROACHESTO MANAGEMENT OF THE

DISEASE IN TEXAS:

1.) Prevent the formation of new oak wilt infection centers by eliminating diseased read oaks, handling firewood properly and painting wounds on healthy oaks.

2.) Trenching or other measures to disrupt root connections responsible for root transmission of the pathogen.

3.) Injections of the fungicide propiconazole (Alamo™) into individual, high value trees help reduce crown loss and may extend the life of the tree. These measures will not cure oak wilt but will significantly reduce tree losses.

PREVENTING NEWINFECTIONS WOULD BE:

1.) Proper handling of diseased red oak trees by cutting down the diseased tree and either burning or burying the wood to prevent insects from transmitting disease spores from fungal mats.

2.) All wounding of oaks (pruning oak trees) should be avoided from February through June. The coldest days in midwinter are the prime time to prune trees.

A website for additional information:www.texasoakwilt.org

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