Volunteer
Master Naturalists complete the required volunteer hours with approved organizations, such as:
- Friends of Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (FOHNWR)
- Texas A&M Agri-Life Extension Service, Grayson County (Agri-Life)
- Eisenhower State Park (ESP) -Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)
- Habitat for Humanity
- Cornell University
- CoCoRaHS
- GLOBE
Some Bluestem Chapter opportunities are as follows:
Provide Information to Visitors of the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center
Duties include greeting and welcoming all visitors and providing maps and website information to them. Answer questions about what to see and do at Hagerman. Sell merchandise in the gift shop, talk about tram tours, auto tours, and upcoming events. To volunteer, contact Pat Crone at mikeorpatcrone@gmail.com or 903.821.0957-leave message.
Habitat for Monarchs
On a brisk, sunny morning in early November, new homeowner Carla watched as several volunteers installed edging, prepared the soil, and planted native vegetation for what would become a Monarch Way Station in her front yard. Many homeowners are planting Way Stations to help feed migrating monarchs and to provide host plants for their larvae as they grow and develop into beautiful, mature…
Bluebird Trail Maintenance & Nest Box Monitoring
The Nestbox Program has been a well-established volunteer activity of the Friends of Hagerman since 2013. Every year volunteers are monitoring nearly 50 nestboxes on Harris Creek and Raasch Hiking Trails at Hagerman NWR and 30 nestboxes at Eisenhower State Park.
Volunteers usually do box repair, relocations…
Other Bluestem Chapter Projects
- Nature-Ology
- Initial Training Class presenters
- Bluestem AT Training presenters
- Sherman Farmers Market
- IDA Dark Sky activities
Friends of Hagerman NWR Opportunities
- Bluebird Trail Maintenance & Nest Box Monitoring
- Butterfly Garden Maintenance
- Garden Docent Program
- Outdoor Crew: Trail maintenance, Plant Food for Migrating Geese
- Visitor Center Greeter
- Wildlife Express Tram Tour Guide
- The Refuge Rocks Children’s Program Assistant
- School Field Trip Leader
- Second Saturday Nature Education Presenter
- Featherless Flyer Newsletter Contributor
Agri-Life Opportunities
- Phone responders for citizen questions about nature and wildlife
- Student Conservation Day
Citizen Science:
- CoCoRaHS Precipitation Monitoring
- Texas Water Specialists – HNWR Water Testing
- GLOBE Atmospheric Monitoring, Green-Up and Green-Down, Observer, Globe at Night
Citizen Science with Cornell (Audubon Society)
- HNWR Weekly Bird Census
- Big Sit, Little Sit and Other Organized Group Bird Counts
- Nest Watch
- Climate Watch