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Winter Tree Walk at Chalk Hill Farm in McKinney

Learn to ID native trees in winter with three master naturalists: Sharla Stack, Melanie Schuchart, and Fran Woodfin. They will lead a walk emphasizing how to identify native trees in the winter using shape, fallen leaves, bark, buds, twigs, thorns, and more.

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AgriLife Urban and Municipal Parks Workshops

Workshops are extended educational opportunities which provide both education on the topic as well as time to design projects to be completed in your community or department. The following workshops are designed to guide practitioners, volunteers, park or trail boards, friends groups, and community leaders. Additional workshops and programs are considered quarterly upon request.

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Native Plant Rescue at Plano Senior High – THIS SATURDAY 23rd

Native Plant Rescue at Plano Senior High – THIS SATURDAY Nov. 23rd. Have you wanted to participate in a Native Plant Rescue? Here is your chance to join fellow naturalists from the surrounding communities to extract plants from large pocket prairie at Plano Senior High School and transplant the native plants at the Canyon Creek Wetlands and Wildscapes project.

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Addressing the Quail Decline: CKWRI Online Survey of Quail Stakeholders

I am conducting research on stakeholders’ perceptions of the northern bobwhite decline in Texas, and you have been selected to take part in an online survey questionnaire. The goal for this survey is to learn of stakeholders’ perceptions about the bobwhite decline in Texas, research and management needs to help address this decline, and availability and sources of bobwhite management information.

Projects

Farmersville Prairie Restoration with Collin College

New Project at Collin College – Farmersville Campus, 501 S Collin Pkwy, Farmersville, TX 75442. Opportunities include general prairie restoration activities, removing invasive species, collecting and spreading seed, deadheading forbs, transplanting natives, prairie maintenance also participating in iNaturalist surveys, educational walks for college students and/or community members.

Books

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

This classic of American environmental writing is not a book about the desert but an elegy for a piece of nature no longer pristine. The author spent 3 seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah in the spring and summer of the mid 1960s through 1968 at Arches National Monument.