Cavers,
I would like to thank the 11 volunteers who came out yesterday to help clear brush and pick-up trash at the Texas Cave Management Association Lost Oasis cave preserve in South Austin. Your efforts removed a great deal of the thick brush, briers and small trees inside the chain link compound. You also mostly completed the 25-foot firebreak on the south side against the neighbor's wooden fence. A special thanks to Galen, Jim, Vico and Gill whose chain saws shredded much of the vegetation. The crew also mowed the grass flanking the front sidewalk and removed a lot of the encroaching vegetation overgrowing the sidewalk. And two body bag sized trash containers were filled with paper, plastic and other gifts of the neighboring community. We will do this again in the spring to finish clearing the compound and selectively clearing and removing lower branches on surrounding trees, so stand by for another call for volunteers. And I hope those who went caving enjoyed the TCMA preserve. Ron Ralph Lost Oasis preserve manager Thanks to Robert Albach, Benjamin Nocholas Yasui, Denise Prendergast, Logan McNatt. Galen Falgout. Vico Jones, Jim Kennedy, Ryan Monjaros, Devra Heyer, Gill Ediger, and Bob Marshall.
