WIMBERLEY, Texas - Centuries-old trees were uprooted along the banks of the Blanco River during the floods of 2015. Now, landowners are teaming up with tree experts to help repair the area for future generations.

"Those minutes of trying to figure out what was going on, and then what to do, and then doing something was probably the scariest moments I've ever had," Wimberley resident Scott Wallace said as he recalled the rising water. 

Floods gutted his home on River Road in Wimberley.

"Was up to the top rail on the balcony up there," Wallace said as he pointed to the second-story of the house.

Also gutted were cypress and sycamore trees that had been growing for hundreds of years.

The Forest Service estimates 85 percent of the vegetation on these banks simply washed away.

With a little help, and hard work, landowners are now learning how to repair the banks of the river. They've teamed up with the organization TreeFolks to begin replanting.

Tree replanting expert Ina Alexatos said her team plants four times as many trees as they think will survive.

"A tree for the deer. A tree for the floods and droughts. A tree for the initial shock, the transplant. The wind and the sun can kill a tree really fast so that one out of four that makes it is your new forest," said Alexatos.

That new forest won't be here next year or even in the next fifty years.

"Well, it's going to take probably a couple hundred years," said Alexatos. 

Wallace knows he'll never see the Blanco look the way it did before the floods, but his great, great, grandchildren just might.

"I think every year it's just going to get better and better," said Wallace. 

If you live on the Blanco River and would like to apply for replanting assistance, visit http://www.treefolks.org.