While the Judson Nature Trails located in the Olmos Basin upstream of Olmos Dam in Alamo Heights are maintained by the San Antonio Audubon Society, today's photos are dominated, not by the birds, but by the magnificent trees growing in the area:
The construction of Olmos Dam in 1926 to control downstream flooding subtly divided the Olmos Basin ecologically into two zones. The overall ecology is the same both upstream and downstream from the dam. However, differences in land use and water flow patterns on either side of the dam following its construction have resulted in changes in the micro-environment of the two locations.
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