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title: "Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park Unified Stewardship Plan"
slug: "walnut-creek-metropolitan-park-unified-stewardship-plan"
updated: 2025-01-06T18:24:32Z
published: 2025-01-06T18:24:32Z
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# Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park Unified Stewardship Plan

The Unified Stewardship Plan is a collective effort to foster a mutually beneficial relationship with the Parks and Recreation Department of Austin, Texas and community members and stakeholders to create a holistic practice to manage and preserve this natural area through knowledge-sharing and equitable distribution of responsibilities and resources for present and future generations.

### In a nutshell, this resource offers:

- An example of a holistic management plan for a city park consisting mostly of forested natural area.
- Site assessment that includes ecological and trail system assessments.
- A management plan that includes metrics for success across five categories.

### How to use this resource:

- As an example of a specific management plan for one park created with the community.
- As a way to combine assessment and management that includes trails and community engagement.

**Date published:**July 2024

Resource is available online [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ixawPN--JY8ZagH6X_5ToXmdg5Xb9gTl/view).

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