https://www.heritagelandhabitat.com/field-notes daily 0.75 2026-08-27 https://www.heritagelandhabitat.com/field-notes/what-lake-austin-waterfront-owners-should-do-during-the-fall-drawdown monthly 0.5 2026-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64d2fe3f816b6a7d3ac5b64c/d79eda0e-c289-4c78-95bb-f78c08140ed1/Communications+and+Engagement+-+Web_Lake+Austin+Drawdown+Map.webp Field Notes - What Lake Austin Waterfront Owners Should Do During the Fall Drawdown The City of Austin and LCRA are dropping Lake Austin about 10 feet this fall. If you own shoreline between Mansfield Dam and Tom Miller Dam, that means a short window where the lakebed in front of your property, in many stretches thick with hydrilla, is exposed and workable. Here's what's happening, what you can get done, and what requires a permit before you touch a shovel. https://www.heritagelandhabitat.com/field-notes/first-steps-raw-land-texas monthly 0.5 2026-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64d2fe3f816b6a7d3ac5b64c/ce5d6403-aeb1-4966-837d-c55ed3e3929f/u8124745415_Wide_landscape_photograph_of_raw_undeveloped_Texa_7294c447-d5b3-4c7f-b502-7815251c3341_1.png Field Notes - You Just Bought Raw Land in Texas. Here's Where to Start - Closing on a piece of raw Texas land is one of the best feelings there is. And then you stand on it, look around, and think: now what? We work with a lot of new landowners, and almost everyone makes the same mistake at this stage — they start doing before they start planning. They bring in a guy with a dozer and start clearing, or dig a pond in the first low spot they see, and a year later they're undoing it. Land is forgiving over decades and unforgiving over months. The moves you make in the first year set the table for everything after. Here's the order of operations we'd actually recommend, in plain terms. https://www.heritagelandhabitat.com/field-notes/pond-cost-texas monthly 0.5 2026-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64d2fe3f816b6a7d3ac5b64c/1787857511100-NV0WB03PJK6JXCJGKZI4/IMG_7362.jpg Field Notes - What Does It Cost to Build a Pond in Texas? An Honest Breakdown - It's the first question almost every landowner asks: what's a pond going to cost me? 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