Zilker Park Disc Golf Course - Picnic Tables and Trees

Central Texas has lived through drought for many of the last 15 years. The Austin political leadership had two responses to disc golf parks where trees were dying at the time. First was to blame the disc golfers and shut down the course in the case of Pease park course. Second was to keep people out of certain spaces. So in Zilker Park they put heavy chain fences around valuable existing trees. In the pics below you wouldve seen that 5 or more years ago. I saw those valuable and expensive chains slowly disappear. thieves stole the chains and the plan didn't keep folks away from trees. The latest strategy is to sculpt the land to entice people into walkable areas away from trees. I like it better than the chains. And the disc golfers arnt killing the trees.