Pease Park
Celebrating PPC's Heroes of Hispanic Heritage ...

Hispanic Heritage Month starts today and Pease Park Conservancy is honored to have cultivated a team with such rich and diverse backgrounds!

Representation matters and thanks to these incredible individuals, we have been able to broaden our community offerings and how we serve Spanish speakers through bilingual communications, programming, and our Ecologist School Field Trips. Join us in celebrating the value and leadership they bring to the organization and its mission by getting to know them!

Celebrating PPC's Heroes of Hispanic Heritage Month
Pease Park
Latinos in Conservation: Sisimac Duchicela

As Latino Conservation Week comes to an end, we want to reflect on the many different ways in which Latinos are playing a role in conservation. From organizing events for groups to spend time in nature like Latino Outdoors’ initiative does, to working in land management, parks departments, and leading research across various topics concerning conservation - the work doesn’t end here! We hope you’ll stay connected with this initiative led by the Hispanic Access Foundation!

Latinos in Conservation: Sisimac Duchicela
Blog Post, News, Kingsbury Commons
Pease Park
What's going on with the Splash Pad?

Thank you for your feedback and concerns regarding the splash pad at Pease Park.

At this time, public safety remains our top priority. We cannot reopen the water feature until we are absolutely certain it is safe to do so. The sophisticated controller equipment that continuously monitors water quality, dispenses the chemicals, and automatically shuts off the splash pad when water quality is out of balance must be operating properly to ensure that it is safe for play. Unhealthy water quality can cause illness and death.We want to assure you that we are working diligently to diagnose the problem and make the necessary repairs. We are working with GPSI, the firm that designed and built the splash pad, as well as IPS, the manufacturer of the controller equipment.

What's going on with the Splash Pad?
Pease Park
Latinos in Conservation: Latino Outdoors

For the past 10 years, the week of July 15 through July 23rd has been recognized as Latino Conservation Week - An initiative led by the Hispanic Access Foundation to further amplify the presence of Latinos in the outdoors. During this time organizations and community groups across the country have gathered and participated in various events to promote conservation efforts in their local environments.

In honor of Latino Conservation Week, we spoke to Josie (San Antonio Regional Coordinator) and Bianca (Program Coordinator) of Latino Outdoors about the history of Latino Outdoors, the work that they do and why it’s important to build an inclusive outdoors:

Latinos in Conservation: Latino Outdoors
Blog Post
Pease Park
Memory and landscape are intertwined..

One of February’s long celebrated moments of remembrance. Since 1976 we have made it an American practice to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” — Pease Park Conservancy is working to center narratives, prioritize experiences, and most importantly to restructuralize how public land is cultivated and shared.

Memory and landscape are intertwined..

Latinos in Conservation: Latino Outdoors

Latinos in Conservation: Latino Outdoors

For the past 10 years, the week of July 15 through July 23rd has been recognized as Latino Conservation Week - An initiative led by the Hispanic Access Foundation to further amplify the presence of Latinos in the outdoors. During this time organizations and community groups across the country have gathered and participated in various events to promote conservation efforts in their local environments.

In honor of Latino Conservation Week, we spoke to Josie (San Antonio Regional Coordinator) and Bianca (Program Coordinator) of Latino Outdoors about the history of Latino Outdoors, the work that they do and why it’s important to build an inclusive outdoors:

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This Spring, We Brought School Outside

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This Spring, We Brought School Outside

Our human disposition for curiosity and observation are the fundamental skills that make everyone an Ecologist in some capacity. This is part of the reason The Conservancy leads the Ecologist School Field Trip Program. This program is a a joint service-learning opportunity between Pease Park Conservancy and Families in Nature with the intent of increasing environmental literacy and encouraging student interest in the environment. In a single semester we have engaged over 290 students from 5 schools in the Austin-metro area and look forward to continuing this service.

Read on to learn more about the program and how you can get involved!

Our Impact in 2022

Our Impact in 2022

2022 was a year of rapid growth at Pease Park Conservancy. In the areas of Operations and Maintenance, Conservation, and Programming, we made great strides toward creating a green space that is beautiful, well-maintained, and welcoming to all.

Please read our 2022 Impact Report to learn more about all that was accomplished by our Pease Park Conservancy team last year.

Step Outside the Classroom for Women's History Month

What once started as a week long celebration of women’s contributions has come a long way! Soon after, the week-long movement was further mobilized by communities, organizations and school districts which led to the month long commemoration of women’s achievements across history we know of today as Women’s History Month.

It is a remarkable thing to be a woman with a vision in the world. We’re honored to be surrounded by such a rich ecosystem of women in Austin — paving the way across Science, Art, Technology, Education and beyond. We want to give our roses this year to a local educator who has helped reshape what a curriculum and a classroom can look like when we bring it outdoors into the natural world.

Eliminating Invasive Plants at Pease

Eliminating Invasive Plants at Pease

Though beautiful, Bamboo is a fast growing, highly aggressive, and densely forming invasive species that has the added attribute of being very hard to kill.

With spring just around the corner Pease Park Conservancy has been hard at work to eliminate the invasive species as quickly and effectively as possible. Read on to learn more about Bamboo, what steps are being taken to tackle its spread, and how you can get involved.

Love is a Journey: Valentine Hike through Pease Park

Love is a Journey: Valentine Hike through Pease Park

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and amid these frigid temperatures we are all yearning for spring and warm fuzzy feelings.

Whether you’re celebrating with a significant other, family, a group of friends, or yourself we wanted to highlight some of the best spots around Pease Park to spend the holiday.

A hike walk through the park is the perfect date idea, after all love’s a journey, so why not take it through Pease Park.

Pease Park POMA Has Been Signed!

Pease Park POMA Has Been Signed!

City of Austin representatives and Pease Park Conservancy CEO, Heath Riddles-Sanchez, signed the Park Operations and Maintenance Agreement (POMA) for Pease Park on Friday, January 13, formalizing shared responsibilities for Operations, Maintenance, and Programming of Pease Park’s Kingsbury Commons (the southernmost 7 acres of the park).

Meet Kurtis: Our Volunteer of the Year

Meet Kurtis: Our Volunteer of the Year

Kurtis has been a constant in Pease Park for two years now and if you have not had the privilege of meeting him in person, we’d like to introduce you to him here. And, we hope you will join us in celebrating him as our Richard F. Craig Volunteer of the Year award recipient (named after our inaugural honoree in 2021 and Pease Park Conservancy Founder, Richard F. Craig)!

Kurtis has been unhoused for some time now, but if this is all you know about him, there is much more to learn about his impact on the park and our Pease Park Conservancy team.