KERR COUNTY — Any time rain begins falling in the Hill Country, Shawn Ligon gets anxious. She recalls waking up nearly a year ago on July 4 to find water rushing into her and her husband Jay’s house in Ingram, across Texas 39 from the Guadalupe River, and scrambling to put the couple’s dogs on […]
Month: July 2026
Native plant giveaway sends 7,000 grasses and sedges to Guadalupe River landowners
The Hill Country Alliance and partners distributed the containerized plants to nearly 200 Upper Guadalupe basin landowners to help stabilize banks battered by the July 2025 flood. The Hill Country Alliance and a coalition of local and regional partners handed out more than 7,000 native plants to nearly 200 landowners along the Upper Guadalupe River […]
Volunteers replant the Guadalupe as Kerrville nears the flood’s one-year mark
A year of volunteer labor along the Guadalupe River has produced more than 250 trees, nearly 2,000 cuttings and over 1,200 native grasses and pollinator plants — an estimated $75,000 worth of restoration work for about $7,000 spent so far, the Kerr County River Foundation told the Kerrville City Council on Tuesday. Jeremy Walther, updating […]