Join us for the 1st Blackland Prairie Chapter Meeting of 2025 on Tuesday, January 14th at 7 PM CST, in Person or online via Zoom.
General
Community Engagement Event from Allen Heritage Village
BPTMN Community Outreach team (left to right) Catherine Mitchell, Donna Cole, and Barbara Hibberd were on hand to educate community volunteers at the Keep Allen Beautiful…
Plant Rescue at Plano Senior High – Event Summary
Organized by Mark Yoder (BPTMN Class of 2024) and promoted by Peter Williams (BPTMN class of 2020) and Julia Koch (NTMN Class of 2020). We met at 8 a.m. Saturday morning to rescue native plants in a pocket prairie established in 2019 by one of Mark’s environmental science students
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.
A Favorite Place
John W. Garbutt, Class of 2019- It is a place that you wake at 0100 for so you can arrive before sunrise. At dawn, you set out on the trail, the day’s trailblazer, the brim of your hat cobwebbed. Canyon Wrens great the day with song. An elk bugles in the distance.
Wanted: Nature Tram Tour Drivers at Hagerman NWR
Posted by Patricia Crain, Class of 2018 Would you enjoy sharing your love of nature with interested tourists and visitors of a National Wildlife Refuge? The Friends of Hagerman NWR… Read More →
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.
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.
2024 December Blackland Prairie Chapter Holiday Party
We are excited to invite our Blackland Prairie Chapter members to our annual holiday party! This event is In-Person only! It will be an excellent opportunity to catch up with Partners, Project Leaders, the 2024 Meeting & Deep Dive Speakers, Mothing setup friends, and fellow chapter members to celebrate the holiday season.
We hope to see you there!
Rewilding Sticker Hill: Is it Finally Fall?
By Karen Glenn BPTMN, Posted by Patricia Crain Class of 2018 Article V of the Rewilding Series Leaves are beginning to drop from trees and shrubs, summer plants are drying… Read More →