Olmos Basin, The Headwaters Sanctuary

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Wednesday and yesterday were almost overwhelming in many ways. In that context, it seemed best today to stay very close to home where my experience of walking urban woods here in Bexar County began almost forty years ago.

My first experience in what is now the Headwaters Sanctuary in Olmos Basin occurred when I enrolled in the course, "Ecology, Environment and Man," at Incarnate Word College in 1972. What we then referred to as the backwoods was the ideal outdoor laboratory for the course. I have walked these woods, now 53 acres in size, countless times since then.

The Headwaters Sanctuary is the land between the University of the Incarnate Word campus and Olmos Dam. It is owned and maintained as a ministry of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word who had purchased the land from George Brackenridge over one hundred years ago.