Integrated Planning of Research, Education and Facilities in the Texas Hill Country for the Llano River Field Station-Texas Tech University

德克萨斯理工大学获得了一笔赠款，用于支持LRFS的战略规划。LRFS是德克萨斯州最大的内陆野外观测站（400英亩），位于生物多样性丰富的德克萨斯州中部山区，被南拉诺河的源头一分为二。目标是为LRFS制定一项综合总体计划，该计划将：促进、支持和吸引地方、区域、国家和国际科学界的优秀基础和应用科学；为本科生、研究生和K-12教育提供机会；为德州公众提供教育和推广机会；并与州和联邦自然资源和教育机构建立伙伴关系。具体活动包括：1)两个独立但综合的便利讲习班，以纳入区域和国家科学和教育界的投入；2)确定合作机构的利益和具体角色，以及3)访问成功的FSML设施收集信息。实地站的位置、规模和任务使它们能够消除主校区、学术单位、学科、科学家和非科学家以及K-12学校之间的教育和研究障碍。这个项目将把一个非常成功的K- 12户外学校4天3夜的教育经验与一系列基础和应用研究项目联系起来，这些研究项目涉及水/流域、外来物种、范围管理、自然资源和生态恢复，适合TTU户外学校的学习和课程单元。

The Texas Tech University is awarded a grant to support strategica planning for the Llano River Field Station (LRFS). LRFS is the largest ( 400 acres) inland field station in Texas, located in the biologically diverse Central Texas Hill Country, and bisected by the headwaters of the South Llano River. Objectives are to develop an integrated master plan for LRFS that will: facilitate, support, and attract excellent basic and applied science by the local, regional, national and international scientific communities; provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and K-12 education; provide opportunities for education and outreach to the Texas public; and to develop partnerships with the state and federal natural resource and education agencies. Specific activities include: 1) two separate, but integrated facilitated workshops to incorporate input from the regional and national scientific and educational community; 2) identification of the interests and specific roles of partner institutions, and 3) information-gathering visits to successful FSML facilities. The location, small size and mission of field stations gives them the capacity to remove barriers between education and research present on main campus, and between academic units, disciplines, scientists and non-scientists, and K-12 schools. This project will link a highly successful K- 12 Outdoor School 4 day/3 night educational experience with a series of basic and applied research projects dealing with water/watersheds, exotic species, range management, natural resources and ecological restoration amenable for study and curriculum units of the TTU Outdoor School.