2024 August Chapter Meeting with Rick Travis | Trees of the Piney Woods

We’ll discuss the overall makeup of the fascinating, extremely diverse Piney Woods ecoregion, and take an armchair hike into the woodlands of East Texas to look at some of the more interesting trees and plants found there.

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 – 7:00 PM
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• SRC Doors will open at 6:30 PM
• Zoom meeting waiting room will open at 6:45 PM
• Business Meeting will begin at 7:00 PM
• Naturalist Talk will begin at 7:30 PM (approximately)

Topic: Trees of the Piney Woods

Speaker: Rick Travis owns a Bachelors’ Degree in Forest Management and an MBA, both from Stephen F. Austin State University. With retirement from his business career, Rick is fulfilling a long-deferred desire for involvement in the environmental sciences. He is an active member of the Blackland Prairie Master Naturalist Chapter and is currently serving as Chapter President. He is also a volunteer trail guide at several places, including the Heard Wildlife Sanctuary, the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA), Plano parks and trails, and Frisco parks and nature trails. Rick is also the Forest Ecology/Trees new class instructor for multiple Master Naturalist chapters in the North Texas area.

Physical Meeting Location:  Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, 
1Nature Place, McKinney TX 75069, Science Resource Center (SRC) building.

Directions to SRC:  Drive through Heard gates; go past parking lot and museum building; continue until the road ends at the large white SRC building. 

Online Zoom Meeting Registration:  
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqc-yrqT4rHtzVMlNaWFk_mL0NlAjq0Lpj
Please register ahead of time for this meeting using your Zoom Account Email address. 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the meeting.

Logging AT:  The monthly meeting presentation will allow members to earn 1-hour of AT. Log as AT: BPTMN Chapter Monthly Meeting Only (1 hour) with the speaker’s name and topic in the description box.

For any additional questions, please contact.
Chapter Meeting Host: Stephanie Cleveland – stephaniec@bptmn.org and Cali Bakker – calib@bptmn.org