Upcoming Events
Monthly Meetings and Programs
6:00 PM – Chapter Business Meeting
7:00 PM – Program
Location: First United Methodist Church; 505 W. Marvin Ave., Waxahachie.
Family Life Center – Gathering Room
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January 26, 2026
The Lichen Flora of North Central Texas
Taylor Quedensley
Lichen-forming fungi (lichens) are a group of organisms that depends on a symbiotic relationship with a photosynthetic partner. These organisms are present on every continent and diverse is all terrestrial ecosystems. Texas is represented by distinct ecoregions and the state has not yet been thoroughly surveyed for lichens. This presentation will share some insight into lichen diversity in north central Texas based on recent and historical collections.
Taylor Quedensley grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended college at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where he studied horticulture. After college, he worked at the San Francisco Botanical Garden and became involved with growing New World cloud forest species. He attended the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and subsequently, the University of Texas at Austin, where he researched sunflower species in Mexican and Guatemala cloud forests. Currently, Taylor is the manager at Cox Farms Nursery in Duncanville and holds a research appointment through the University of Texas herbarium.
February 23, 2026
Fairs, Festivals, and Farmers Markets: Sharing Nature appreciation with the general public
Nancy Angell
Want to reach the general public with your conservation message? Check out ” Fairs, Festivals and Farmers Markets” , a presentation derived from the 2022 TMN Project Fair winning presentation titled “Beyond the Choir”! It outlines the journey the Sabine-Neches Chapter took to develop engaging booth activities that teach conservation at non-ecocentric events. Topics include: what makes an attractive booth display, specific types of engaging activities and the costs involved, recruiting chapter members and making connections with community event leaders. Let’s deliver our important conservation message to mainstream America!
Nancy Angell has always been a “nature nut” so TMN has been a perfect fit for her retirement years. She is the Outreach Coordinator for the Sabine-Neches Chapter; the goal is to share nature appreciation with folks in Southeast Texas. Nancy enjoys leading nature hikes in the Big Thicket National Preserve, teaching nature classes to children and restoring her 10-acre farm to native species habitat. Texan by Nature recognized her property “Angell Acres” as a Texas Conservation Star in October, 2025.
March 23, 2026
Going Bats!
Sue Frary
This will be a discussion of bats in general – biology, myths, and legends. And specifically, we will discuss what we have learned about the bats living among us in Ellis and Navarro counties.
Sue is an Indian Trail Chapter Texas Master Naturalist, Class of 2016. She is currently the Chapter Coordinator for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Nature Trackers Acoustic Bat Monitoring Project, a 5-year effort now in it’s third year to collect state-wide data on the local presence of bats for submission to the USGS North American Bat Monitoring Project (NABat). Sue lives in Waxahachie, is an occasional birder, and also serves as an armchair botanist for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. She holds a BA from Bennington College and a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Vermont.
