Discarded Panda Express soy sauce packets from Jones Dining Hall at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas are swept into the corner of an outdoor staircase mixed with other leaves and dirt on Oct. 23, 2025. 
Bret Lantz, Texas State University Landscape Services employee, collects trash blown into shrubbery bordering Derrick Hall at Texas State University in San Marcos on Oct. 28, 2025. 
A straw wrapper is tangled with the branches of a bush outside the LBJ Student Center at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas on Oct. 23, 2025. 
Mallory Battista, Digital Media Innovation junior, retrieves a napkin blown off the picnic table she ate her lunch at in front of Old Main at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas on Oct. 28, 2025. 
Ron Craen, a Texas State University shuttle bus driver, waits for any remaining students needing to board his bus at the LBJ Student Center bus loop on Oct. 27, 2025. 
A sign listing the rules for Sewell Park can be found adjacent to the trash and recycling bins outside Lions Club Tube Rentals in San Marcos, Texas on Oct. 24, 2025. 
A student paddleboards around a protected area of Texas Wild Rice growing in the San Marcos River at Sewell Park across from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas on Oct. 24, 2025. 
Joseph Garcia, City of Austin Parks and Recreation employee, finishes taping an educational poster at Friends of Trees’ game booth for the Farmer Fred’s Fall Carnival in San Marcos, Texas on Oct. 24, 2025. 
A group of students float down the San Marcos River in inflatble tubes at Sewell Park across from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas on Oct. 24, 2025. 
Seniors, Anna Dickerson and Chance Cooper, run laps around goalposts during a Texas State Quadball practice held at Spring Lake Field Complex in San Marcos, Texas on Oct. 27, 2025.
Explosive Student Enrollment Deteriorates Relationship With Local Environment
