TreeFolks recovery program to continue

Hays County

Staff Report on July 27, 2016

By Bailey Buckingham

An organization shepherding the reforestation effort along the Blanco River following devastating floods in 2015 was given permission by Hays County Commissioners earlier this month to continue its work.

With one commissioner absent, Hays County Commissioners voted unanimously to continue the services of TreeFolks, an organization that seeks to empower Central Texas by planting and caring for trees. TreeFolks, which was hired on an initial contract in 2015, had its contract ...

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