Llano River Watershed Alliance

The Junction Eagle April 22, 2015 by James Murr A workshop on the Oasis Pipeline fire was held on April 18th at Texas Tech’s Llano River Field Station in Junction. The fire burned around 9,000 acres about 14 miles southwest of Junction during April 24 to May 10 in 2011. This article is the last in a series of three about the fire. The first two articles reviewed the fire’s scope, cooperative firefighting efforts, costs, and different land restoration and recovery approache

The Junction Eagle April 8, 2015 by James Murr and Scott Richardson This is the second of three articles reviewing the OASIS Pipeline fire of April-May 2011 that burned 9,000 acres southwest of Junction. The first article reviewed the extent of the fire and the cooperative efforts of local, state, and federal governments in bringing the fire under control. This article reviews actions taken after the fire to deal with the restoration and recovery of the burned land that t

The Junction Eagle April 1, 2015 by James Murr and Scott Richardson In April 2011, a time of severe drought, a large fire was started by a smoldering lighting strike around 14 miles southwest of Junction near the end of Kimble County Road 130. The severe fire that burned around 9,000 acres came to be known as the OASIS Pipeline Fire. During the course of the fire, from April 24 to May 10, it threatened at times to reach the City of Junction. On Saturday, April 18th, four