FrontispieceSRFS · No. 01
Short’s Resort Field Station · Est. 2026

A Hill Country
Restoration Project

A working record of putting one small tract above the Lampasas River back toward what the Hill Country can be — its seven sections, the instruments we build to tend them and every plan and line of code we use to do it.

The Lampasas River bending past gravel bars below the property, seen through the oaksThe Lampasas · July 2026
The river along the south boundary · gravel bars, cut banks and the riparian strip the restoration is built around

The Station, in Five Parts

Section 01

Field Journal

Dispatches from the restoration — burndowns and plantings, the instruments we build, the grants that carry it, and how the place came to be.

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Section 02

The Land

Seven restoration sections across the tract, mapped from the air along the Lampasas.

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Section 03

Instruments & Infrastructure

The things we build to do the work — from the propagation bench to the bioacoustic listening node — and the open software that runs them.

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Section 04

R&D Library

A credited reading list for Central Texas native propagation, and our own species notes.

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Section 05

About

The property, the institution behind it and the partners who support the work.

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Supported by
USDA · NRCS
NRCS EQIP ↗
Texas Parks & Wildlife
TPWD · Pastures for Upland Birds ↗