Master Naturalist Training Applications Now Being Accepted

This year’s Master Naturalist training class will begin Thursday, August 15th. Applications are due by 5pm, August 1st.

The Texas Master Naturalist program offers many opportunities to learn and teach others. Training includes entomology, ornithology, mammalogy, botany, ecology, archaeology, geology, meteorology, and astronomy.

If you live in Taylor, Callahan, Coleman, Eastland, Fisher, Jones, Haskell, Knox, Nolan, Runnels, Shackelford, Stephens and Throckmorton County, you are eligible to apply.

Classes typically run on Thursdays beginning in the middle of August through the middle of  November and we will have 3 Saturday field sessions.

The 2024 application can be found here: Big Country Master Naturalist 2024 Training Application 

Please see schedule on the last page of the application for a tentative list of class dates and time. Questions may be directed to the office at 325-672-6048.