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Love Creek Preserve:A Hill Country Gem
By:Rebecca Flack
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends
• 886,00 acres protected
– 37 Preserves– >100 Conservation
Easements
• ~ 85 staff
Stewardship Center
Cool Things About Love Creek
Golden-cheeked warbler Black-capped vireo
Top 10 Most Common Bird Species at Love Creek
• Northern Cardinal• Black-crested Titmouse• Golden-cheeked Warbler• Summer Tanager• Bewick’s Wren
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher• White-eyed Vireo• Red-eyed Vireo• Mourning Dove• Hutton’s Vireo
Black-capped Vireo**
• Twistleaf yucca• Plateau milkvine• Leastdaisy• Hairy leastdaisy• Spreading leastdaisy• Canyon rattlesnake-
root• Lindheimer
crownbeard• Texas barberry• Slender bladderpod• Wand butterfly bush
• Tobusch fishhook cactus
• Plateau spiderwort• Plateau ponyfoot• Plateau sedge• Plateau wildmercury• Roemer’s spurge • Dark noseburn• Texas milkpea• Watsons milkpea• Plateau yellow
buckeye
• Texas mockorange*• Big red sage• Buckley tridens• Texas phlox• Plateau anemone• Scarlet clematis• Plateau blackcherry• Scarlet penstemon• Texas seymeria• Wooly sycamoreleaf
snowbells• Mountain grape
More Cool Things About Love Creek> 420 Plant Species – 31 Endemics!!
Tobusch fishhook cactus
Cool Plants!
Canyon rattlesnake-root
Watson’s milkpea
The Coolness Continues!
Medina roundnose minnow
Brush Control
• Currently under contract to clear 153 acres of Ashe juniper
• 50 additional acres to be cleared next year through LIP Grant with TPWD
• Previous clearing done with chainsaws and loppers
Prescribed Fire
• 3 prescribed burns since 2009
• Approximately 240 acres burned
• More planned!!
Deer and Exotic Species Control
Himalayan Blackberry Control
Thistle control
www.hawk-conservancy.org
www.reforestationservices.com
campus.extension.org
www.glaucus.org.uk
Musk thistle
Malta star-thistleSlender bristle-thistle
Ways to get involved!!• Plant monitoring
– Tobusch fishhook cacti– Watson’s milkpea– Canyon rattlesnake-root
• Bird Surveys• Butterfly Survey (NABA Count)• Deer Exclosures• Photo Points• Active management• Native Landscaping
2015 Christmas Bird Count – December 17th!!
Questions?
Rebecca FlackSouthern Hill Country Project Director
Mobile: 979.777.1862Office: 830.328.6033
