National park
Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve
Wooded canyon preserve of hiking trails and a spring-fed creek, saved by grassroots fundraising.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve in Austin follows the nineteen seventy-four scramble to save it, when seven local women, including Janet Poage, took on a federal grant deadline with far less money raised than they needed. Nicknamed the little old ladies in tennis shoes, they turned garage sales and cupcake stands against a developer's plan to fold the canyon into a subdivision. The guide also touches on the golden-cheeked warbler, the endangered songbird whose survival became tied to theirs.
This audio guide was created using AI.