Oasis Fire Pipeline

Recovery and Reclamation

Nov. 12th Agenda

Morning Session at TTU Dinning Hall

8:30-8:55            Check in and Coffee Social

8:55-9:00            Welcome & Introduction Scott Richardson SLWA

9:00-9:15            Overview of Oasis Pipeline Wildfire Rich Gray TFS

9:15-9:45            General soil/vegetation effects of wildfire in dry conditions Alfredo Munoz NRCS

9:45-10:15            Post fire restoration and recovery Bill Neiman NAS

10:15-10:30            Best land management practices Joyce Moore TPWD

10:30-10:45            Reading your land: Habitat evaluation, assessment, and monitoring.

                        Ward Whitworth Kimble Co. Rancher and Chairman UL SWCD

10:45-11:00            Documenting vegetative recovery: photo points, excluder cages, GPS, etc.

                        Dr. Tom Arsuffi TTU Llano Field Station

11:00-11:15            Economic Impact of Oasis Fire Andy Murr Kimble County Judge

11:15-11:30            Cost Share Programs: EQIP, WHIP, Alfredo Munoz NRCS

                        LIP, Arlene Kalmbach, TPWD representative

11:30-12:00            Lunch (Sack Lunch in Dinning Hall)

                        Speaker: Aaron Wendt Statewide Watershed Planning Coordinator TSSWCB

Afternoon Session at Fox Hollow Subdivision

12:00-12:30            Transport to Fox Hollow Site (Van shuttle)

12:30-3:30            Outdoor demonstration stations on three sites with

                        Rotation between sites at equal time intervals. (approx. 45 mins./site)

                        Site One: Flat bottom land & steep slope demos Steve Nelle

·      Habitat Monitoring

·      Excluder on Shin Oak sprouts (with control sprouts not caged)

·      Two natural excluder cages (one on forbs & one on hackberry sprout)

·      Excluder cage on forbs sprouts watered

·      Erosion issues @ man-made spreader dam

·      Demo of cut & stacked slash on contours of steep slope

·      Demo of straw rolls and seeding results on steep slope

·      Photo points 

                        Site Two: Flat upland & steep slope real time demos Bill Neiman & Rich Gray

·      Micro – island restoration site / reseeding site

·      Demo Seeding on steep slope including seed balls

·      Erosional controls with cut slash, etc.

·      Leave standing cedar for wildlife habitat

·      Leave cut cedar

                        Site Three: Upland at upper end of draw Joyce Moore & Gary Garrett

·      Best land management practices

·      Check dams of rock (Junction HS students)

·      Observe how cedar slash of large cedar has been spread in a concentric pattern around the stump.

3:30-4:00            Return to TTU  Center

4:00-4:30            Wrap up and evaluation, seed mix given out.

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