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VMS Opportunity: <\/span>Beason\u2019s Crossing Park Pollinator Pocket near Columbus<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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When:\u00a0Monday, June 22, 2026, from 8-11a.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
(Thereafter the 4th Monday each month.)<\/div>\n
Location:\u00a0Beason’s Crossing Park,<\/b>\u00a03614 US-90, Columbus, TX 78934 (circular garden with a drive around it near the pavilion in this small park)<\/span><\/div>\n
Bring your favorite loppers, pruners, shovel, and lots of water and sun protection. Bug repellent may be needed.
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Feel free to call the project leader, Christine Feehery or Wanda Anglin, the ad hoc committee lead for the <\/span>\u00a0H-E-B grant, if you have questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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About the Project<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n
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Pickens\u00a0Pollinator Pocket is a demonstration pollinator garden established in the late 1990s by Columbus residents that TMN GLC is adopting to revitalize. The small circular garden has a drainage alley running through its middle giving it the unique opportunity to be a riparian pollinator garden. With the mature trees and understory, as well as its position adjacent to the slow-moving Colorado River, the site will provide an excellent opportunity for demonstrations and talks with all ages about riparian habitats, common pollinators, and general best practices for wildlife habitat. Passers-by from the busy entrance to Columbus, walkers from downtown, soccer team families, fishermen, kayakers, and more will enjoy this pocket garden.<\/div>\n
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It is named for Mary Anne\u00a0Pickens, the original project lead when the garden was created. She is a horticultural innovator and purpose-filled native plant advocate well before it was the norm. She served as NPSOT President and had a deep connection with fellow famed Houston-area horticulturists and plant enthusiasts.<\/div>\n
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Beason’s Crossing Park is the site of 2 historical monuments which explain its namesake. The Beasons were an industrious family that came to the region as part of Stephen F. Austin’s old 300 grants. Benjamin Beason and his wife, Elizabeth “Betsy”, built a homestead that offered a wide variety of services to early pioneers including the crossing, an inn, a gristmill, and cotton gin. It was at this crossing that Sam Houston and his army of volunteers camped for one week in March 1836. In part of what became known across southern and southeastern Texas as the Runaway Scrape, Houston had evacuated (and burned) the town of Beason’s Crossing retreating to San Felipe to recruit and train reinforcements in the face of General Santa Anna\u2019s large, advancing forces. The park is a beautiful area to stand and admire the river and consider what tales it might tell from a storied past.<\/div>\n
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There are many opportunities at\u00a0Pickens\u00a0Pollinator Park for TMN volunteers to get involved. As the Gideon Lincecum Chapter revives the circular riparian area, we will trim the mature garden removing invasives and ill-placed specimens. We will add a variety of plants native to the Post Oak Savannah, many harvested from Colorado County TMN GLC members’ properties. Colorado County Commissioners approved the renovation of the pollinator garden and will provide support in keeping the larger park well-maintained. Beason’s Park is a bat monitoring site during June with our TMN GLC Bat Monitoring project!<\/div>\n
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Join us on 4th Mondays at \u00a08-11:00am!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","excerpt":"","slug":"pickens-pollinator-pocket-in-columbus-workday","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2026-06-22 08:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"06","day":"22","hour":"08","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2026-06-22 11:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"06","day":"22","hour":"11","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2026-06-22 13:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"06","day":"22","hour":"13","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2026-06-22 16:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"06","day":"22","hour":"16","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Chicago","timezone_abbr":"CDT","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Volunteer Project","slug":"service-project","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":352,"filter":"raw","meta":[],"id":17908,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/glc\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/17908","collection":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/glc\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":16884,"author":"1100","status":"publish","date":"2026-06-18 11:25:04","date_utc":"2026-06-18 16:25:04","modified":"2026-06-18 11:25:04","modified_utc":"2026-06-18 16:25:04","url":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/glc\/venue\/beasons-crossing-park-columbus-texas\/","venue":"Beason’s Crossing Park Columbus Texas","slug":"beasons-crossing-park-columbus-texas","address":"3614 US-90","city":"Columbus","country":"United States","state":"TX","zip":"78934","stateprovince":"TX","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"txmn.org\/glc?id=16884","global_id_lineage":["txmn.org\/glc?id=16884"]},"organizer":[{"id":15013,"author":"1100","status":"publish","date":"2025-09-07 10:52:15","date_utc":"2025-09-07 15:52:15","modified":"2025-09-07 10:52:15","modified_utc":"2025-09-07 15:52:15","url":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/glc\/organizer\/wanda-anglin\/","organizer":"Wanda Anglin","slug":"wanda-anglin","global_id":"txmn.org\/glc?id=15013","global_id_lineage":["txmn.org\/glc?id=15013"]}],"custom_fields":[]},{"id":16899,"global_id":"txmn.org\/glc?id=16899","global_id_lineage":["txmn.org\/glc?id=16899"],"author":"1549","status":"publish","date":"2026-06-20 18:06:51","date_utc":"2026-06-20 23:06:51","modified":"2026-06-20 18:34:02","modified_utc":"2026-06-20 23:34:02","url":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/glc\/event\/volunteer-opportunity-pickens-pollinator-pocket-workday\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/glc\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/16899","title":"Volunteer Opportunity \u2013 Pickens Pollinator Pocket Workday","description":"

>>Record in VMS (including your travel time) as: Beason’s Crossing Park Pollinator Pocket near Columbus: Gideon Lincecum Master Naturalists<<<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the Gideon Lincecum Chapter revives the circular riparian area, we will trim the mature garden removing invasives and ill-placed specimens. We will add a variety of plants native to the Post Oak Savannah, many harvested from Colorado County TMN GLC members’ properties. Join us at the circular garden with a drive around it near the pavilion in this small park. Bring your favorite loppers, pruners, shovel, and lots of water and sun protection. Bug repellent may be needed.<\/p>\n

Beason’s Park is a bat monitoring site during June with our TMN GLC Bat Monitoring project!<\/p>\n

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>> Record AT hours (without travel time) in VMS as \u2013 AT: TPWD Wildlife and Land Management Workshops and Programs. In your VMS description, include program title, presenter, sponsors, format (location or virtual). <<<\/strong><\/p>\n

Registration is now open for the next plant party!<\/p>\n

Plant Party: Grasses for the Win!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us on June 24th from 10:00 – 11:30 AM (Central) for 5 short presentations from experts in the field and lots of DOOR PRIZES!<\/p>\n

Topics:<\/p>\n