Coastal Prairie Chapter Texas Master Naturalist Classes
Become a Coastal Prairie Texas Master Naturalist!
Add your name to the “I’m Interested” List for 2012! (see contacts below)
In the meantime — visit with us at our programs.
- Coastal Prairie 2007 Trainees at Brazos Bend (by S. Hobbet)
Our next training class will run for five Thursdays and three Saturdays (all-day classes) beginning September 8 and ending October 25, 2012.
To add your name to the interest list, please send an e-mail to: Coastal Prairie Training Classes
Please provide your name, home address, home telephone number, and e-mail address.
You may also call the chapter’s Training Committee Chair, Doug Simons, for any other questions, at (281) 346-1436.
Training Overview:
The Texas Master Naturalist Program is a volunteer training and development program sponsored by Texas AgriLIFE Extension Service, a Texas A&M System and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The sponsoring agencies in turn receive valuable assistance from Texas Master Naturalist volunteers. Texas Master Naturalist’s goal is to help improve participants understanding of natural resources and related management activities, enabling them to earn Texas Master Naturalist certification. Texas Master Naturalists volunteer in their communities, providing natural resource education and participating in community service and outreach projects in support of Texas AgriLIFE Extension Service and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Texas Master Naturalist training covers a wide variety of topics including botany, ecology, geology, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, soil science, weather & climate, and archaeology. To maintain certification, Texas Master Naturalists must complete 40 hours of volunteer service and 8 hours of advanced training each year. Examples of volunteer service projects include park trail interpretation, native grass seed collection, archaeological digs, and quail population studies. Texas Master Naturalists also receive volunteer service credit for chapter leadership activities such as serving as an officer or on a committee.
The Coastal Prairie Chapter of Texas Master Naturalist, formed in 2004, serves Fort Bend and Waller Counties. The Coastal Prairie Chapter begins training classes each year in September. The classes are one day a week for eight consecutive weeks from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm in various locations in Fort Bend and Waller Counties. The class schedule is split between Thursdays and Saturdays. To apply, download the training schedule and application below, or email the Training Committee Chair, Doug Simons. TO APPLY, download the 2012 training class schedule and 2012 application below.
If you’d like to be placed on the “I’m Interested List”, please e-mail, Doug Simons, CPC Training Chairman, and provide your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. Our Training Committee will keep in contact with you, and you’ll be on the list for 2012.
2012 Training Schedule Texas Master Naturalist Application 2012
