WORKING PARTNERS
photo: Rudmer Zwerver/iStock
photo: Rudmer Zwerver/iStock
Well-vetted groups, businesses, consultants, farmers, and ranchers doing the work to help sustain and regenerate Texas karst country.
Click each working partner's link to visit their websites. Scroll down to see a summary of their work.
Send us a message to have your name/business added!
Click each working partner's link to visit their websites. Scroll down to see a summary of their work.
Send us a message to have your name/business added!
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AQUASTRATEGIES
Consultations - Planning
Small engineering firm working with clients to promote healthy watersheds, focusing on water quality and water quantity issues. Based in Dripping Springs.
BALCONES CANYONLAND PRESERVE
Research - Conservation - Education
Division of Austin Water that manages more than 14,000 acres of protected forests, caves, springs, and creeks across western Austin. Uses regenerative strategies to restore water basin health and resilience.
Comal County Conservation Alliance
CONSERVATION, EDUCATION: A volunteer driven grassroots nonprofit that works to preserve land, water, and wildlife in Comal County, Texas. Its work is vital to the protection of our crystal-clear rivers ensuring that the springs which sustain them continue to flow and fuel our local economies. CCCA works to ensure that our natural areas, clean air, wildlife habitat, and starry skies are protected forever.
EARTH REPAIR CORPS
Consulting - Education
Committed to creating abundance and agriculturally productive ecosystems using good design.
GRASSROOTS CARBON
Financing - Education
Carbon credit brokers helping land stewards get paid by providing measurements and certified carbon credits for soil carbon storage.
GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE (GEAA)
Education - Research
Nonprofit that protects Edwards Aquifer karstlands and waters. Participates in regenerative research. Located in San Antonio.
GREEN COW COMPOST
Consultation - Installation
Producer of bulk dairy cow compost, soils, and mulch that's teaming with microbes, nutrients, and organic matter to help create healthier soil.
HILL COUNTRY HEADWATERS CONSERVATION INITIATIVE
Financing - Education - Consultations
NRCS (NCPP)/ Hill Country Conservancy nonprofit program provides financial assistance and technical support for qualified Hill Country landowners.
KARST WORKS, INC.
Consultations - Analysis - Remediation
Provides services in limestone (karst) and fractured rock terrains. Specializes in tracer (dye) testing, sinkhole remediation, source water protection planning, and hazardous materials response plans, and monitoring program designs.
KISS THE GROUND
Education - Advocacy - Training
Nonprofit promoting regenerative agriculture awareness, education, and training. Working to increase government funding to transition 100 million more acres to regenerative agriculture.
LAND STEWARD
Consultation - Planning - Written Plans
Catering to Texas landowners who want a site-specific plan to help them be better land stewards. Our approach is to first determine what the land can provide, then establish goals. We work for individual landowners, real estate agents, agencies, and developers.
LANDMARK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT LLC
Consultation - Management Plans
Biologist owned and operated company that provides Texas landowners with land and wildlife management expertise and tax valuations to enhance wildlife, recreation, watershed, economic, and enjoyment value of their their most cherished asset--their land.
NATIONAL CAVE & KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NCKRI)
Research - Education
Nonprofit that facilitates and conducts programs in research, education, data management, and stewardship for all fields of speleology.
NATIVE AMERICAN SEED
Supplier - Consulting - Installation
Making lands more native and better than they were found. Native seeds and roots supplier. Ecological consulting and planning, based in Junction.
NCAT SOIL FOR WATER
Volunteer Consultations, Education
Supports American farmers, ranchers, and managers to make lands more resilient and profitable using regenerative practices to catch and hold more water in the soil.
PURE PASTURES
Working Ranch
Ranchers near Canyon Lake using 100% regenerative techniques to holistically managing animals in a way that revitalizes the ranch’s natural resources. Since 2015 they have perfected rotational and multi-species grazing practices to provide the most flavorful and nutrient dense meat.
RHIZOS
Soil Analysis - Education
Soil health specialists providing insight into soil biological, chemical, and physical properties. Reports tailored per client's understanding.
ROAM RANCH
Working Ranch - Education
Making lands more native and better than they were found. Native seeds and roots supplier. Ecological consulting and planning, based in Junction.
SOIL AGAIN
Soil Analysis
Biological soil analyses using the Soil Food Web paradigm. Will travel up to 50 miles from Cedar Park to collect samples.
SYMBIOSIS
Consultations, Education
Full service design-build firm specializing in land regeneration works for central Texas.
TERRAPUREZZA
Working Ranch - Education
Regenerative agriculture farm in Spicewood that uses innovative techniques to regenerate soil quality, recharge aquifers, and restore native habitat. Tours available.
TEXAS SPELEOLOGICAL SURVEY (TSS)
Cave Mapping - Data Collection - Education
TSS collects cave and karst data for Texas to support exploration, scientific, educational, and conservation purposes.
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
Education - Research
Nonprofit in Wimberley working to educate people about limestone karst and the importance of protection and sustainable management.
UNDERGROUND TEXAS GROTTO (UTG)
Cave Exploration - Education
Established in 1951, we are the oldest caving organization in Texas and have served as the nexus for cave exploration all over Texas and Mexico for more than fifty years. As members of this Austin-based nonprofit group, members range from total beginners to international expedition cavers.
VAN DYCK EARTHWORKS
Consultations - Management - Installation
Survey, construct, and plant berms/swales and gabions on contour to slow down and redirect stormwater flows. Based in Blanco/Dripping Springs.
WHF
Research - Education
WHF℠ provides on-the-ground restoration, management and generational sustainability of prairie habitat for the conservation of soil, water, air and wildlife.
WILCOX ECOHYDROLOGY LAB
Research - Education
Part of the Texas A&M University's Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, this lab run by Dr. Bradford Wilcox strives to develop a process-based understanding of socio-ecological systems for sustainably managing water resources.
Consultations - Planning
Small engineering firm working with clients to promote healthy watersheds, focusing on water quality and water quantity issues. Based in Dripping Springs.
BALCONES CANYONLAND PRESERVE
Research - Conservation - Education
Division of Austin Water that manages more than 14,000 acres of protected forests, caves, springs, and creeks across western Austin. Uses regenerative strategies to restore water basin health and resilience.
Comal County Conservation Alliance
CONSERVATION, EDUCATION: A volunteer driven grassroots nonprofit that works to preserve land, water, and wildlife in Comal County, Texas. Its work is vital to the protection of our crystal-clear rivers ensuring that the springs which sustain them continue to flow and fuel our local economies. CCCA works to ensure that our natural areas, clean air, wildlife habitat, and starry skies are protected forever.
EARTH REPAIR CORPS
Consulting - Education
Committed to creating abundance and agriculturally productive ecosystems using good design.
GRASSROOTS CARBON
Financing - Education
Carbon credit brokers helping land stewards get paid by providing measurements and certified carbon credits for soil carbon storage.
GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE (GEAA)
Education - Research
Nonprofit that protects Edwards Aquifer karstlands and waters. Participates in regenerative research. Located in San Antonio.
GREEN COW COMPOST
Consultation - Installation
Producer of bulk dairy cow compost, soils, and mulch that's teaming with microbes, nutrients, and organic matter to help create healthier soil.
HILL COUNTRY HEADWATERS CONSERVATION INITIATIVE
Financing - Education - Consultations
NRCS (NCPP)/ Hill Country Conservancy nonprofit program provides financial assistance and technical support for qualified Hill Country landowners.
KARST WORKS, INC.
Consultations - Analysis - Remediation
Provides services in limestone (karst) and fractured rock terrains. Specializes in tracer (dye) testing, sinkhole remediation, source water protection planning, and hazardous materials response plans, and monitoring program designs.
KISS THE GROUND
Education - Advocacy - Training
Nonprofit promoting regenerative agriculture awareness, education, and training. Working to increase government funding to transition 100 million more acres to regenerative agriculture.
LAND STEWARD
Consultation - Planning - Written Plans
Catering to Texas landowners who want a site-specific plan to help them be better land stewards. Our approach is to first determine what the land can provide, then establish goals. We work for individual landowners, real estate agents, agencies, and developers.
LANDMARK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT LLC
Consultation - Management Plans
Biologist owned and operated company that provides Texas landowners with land and wildlife management expertise and tax valuations to enhance wildlife, recreation, watershed, economic, and enjoyment value of their their most cherished asset--their land.
NATIONAL CAVE & KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NCKRI)
Research - Education
Nonprofit that facilitates and conducts programs in research, education, data management, and stewardship for all fields of speleology.
NATIVE AMERICAN SEED
Supplier - Consulting - Installation
Making lands more native and better than they were found. Native seeds and roots supplier. Ecological consulting and planning, based in Junction.
NCAT SOIL FOR WATER
Volunteer Consultations, Education
Supports American farmers, ranchers, and managers to make lands more resilient and profitable using regenerative practices to catch and hold more water in the soil.
PURE PASTURES
Working Ranch
Ranchers near Canyon Lake using 100% regenerative techniques to holistically managing animals in a way that revitalizes the ranch’s natural resources. Since 2015 they have perfected rotational and multi-species grazing practices to provide the most flavorful and nutrient dense meat.
RHIZOS
Soil Analysis - Education
Soil health specialists providing insight into soil biological, chemical, and physical properties. Reports tailored per client's understanding.
ROAM RANCH
Working Ranch - Education
Making lands more native and better than they were found. Native seeds and roots supplier. Ecological consulting and planning, based in Junction.
SOIL AGAIN
Soil Analysis
Biological soil analyses using the Soil Food Web paradigm. Will travel up to 50 miles from Cedar Park to collect samples.
SYMBIOSIS
Consultations, Education
Full service design-build firm specializing in land regeneration works for central Texas.
TERRAPUREZZA
Working Ranch - Education
Regenerative agriculture farm in Spicewood that uses innovative techniques to regenerate soil quality, recharge aquifers, and restore native habitat. Tours available.
TEXAS SPELEOLOGICAL SURVEY (TSS)
Cave Mapping - Data Collection - Education
TSS collects cave and karst data for Texas to support exploration, scientific, educational, and conservation purposes.
THE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
Education - Research
Nonprofit in Wimberley working to educate people about limestone karst and the importance of protection and sustainable management.
UNDERGROUND TEXAS GROTTO (UTG)
Cave Exploration - Education
Established in 1951, we are the oldest caving organization in Texas and have served as the nexus for cave exploration all over Texas and Mexico for more than fifty years. As members of this Austin-based nonprofit group, members range from total beginners to international expedition cavers.
VAN DYCK EARTHWORKS
Consultations - Management - Installation
Survey, construct, and plant berms/swales and gabions on contour to slow down and redirect stormwater flows. Based in Blanco/Dripping Springs.
WHF
Research - Education
WHF℠ provides on-the-ground restoration, management and generational sustainability of prairie habitat for the conservation of soil, water, air and wildlife.
WILCOX ECOHYDROLOGY LAB
Research - Education
Part of the Texas A&M University's Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, this lab run by Dr. Bradford Wilcox strives to develop a process-based understanding of socio-ecological systems for sustainably managing water resources.
