Comment on Austin's Lady Bird Lake trail marks more than 40 years

Austin's Lady Bird Lake trail marks more than 40 years

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Imagine Lady Bird Lake without a mantle of green wrapped around its shores. The Austin American-Statesman reports Austinites whose memories reach back to the early 1960s — when the newly impounded body of water on the Colorado River was dubbed Town Lake by an American-Statesman reporter because nobody else bothered to name it — can envision such a treeless state. "They removed all the trees in 1958 to reduce flooding," remembers Leslie "Les" Gage, a former City Council member who co-chaired the 1970s committee to create a hike-and-bike trail around the lake.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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