The first 1,000 native trees took root along the Guadalupe River.
The locally collected seedlings begin a five-year, 50,000-tree recovery plan.
San Antonio Botanical Garden and community partners planted the first 1,000 native trees in a five-year plan to restore the Guadalupe River corridor after the 2025 flood.
WHAT HAPPENED
Volunteers and partners planted the first 1,000 trees on November 5. The broader TREES Initiative aims to place 50,000 native trees along roughly 40 sites in Kerr County over five years. The young trees come from seeds hand-collected from the river’s surviving canopy, helping preserve locally adapted plant genetics. More than 850,000 seeds have been gathered, and the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has committed $3 million to the work.
WHY THIS IS HOPESLOP
Recovery sometimes looks less like a ribbon cutting than a thousand careful holes in the ground. These seedlings will need years of tending before they become a canopy, but the restoration has moved from promise to planted trees—using local seeds and local knowledge to rebuild a riverbank one root system at a time.
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