This gallery covers our trip to and from and participation at the Texas Forest Service's seminar on Volunteers in Firewise activities. The participants covered here are David Allen, Margaret Baker, and Kay Mayfield from the San Marcos/Wimberley area. We carpooled to the conference, which was held at the magnificent HE Butt Echo Valley Camp north of Leakey, Texas on the Frio River. This conference was attended by about 40 people on April 7-9, 2008.

I want to offer my personal thanks to the Texas Forest Service for their insight and initiative in organizing and conducting this seminar. I also want to thank the HE Butt Foundation for being the gracious host for this event at their magnficent and gorgeous Echo Valley Camp.

As the creator of this album, I want to take this opportunity to dedicate it to my dear, close friend, Jan Fulkerson. Jan's title with the Texas Forest Service is Urban Wildlife Interface Specialist. To me, Jan is the compelling lady who, in her dutiful role as UWI Specialist, came and spoke to our Property Owner's Association at a Neighbor's Night Out gathering on August 2, 1995. She motivated and inspired us in Summer Mountain Ranch to get busy and become a Firewise Community. We received our award and recognition as a Firewise Community on April 22, 2006. Jan, I thank you on behalf of myself, certainly, but also on behalf of all us neighbors in Summer Mountain Ranch, for your guidance, motivation, and inspiration in us achieving Firewise Community recognition!