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Chapter Meetings

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May 15, 2025

2025 June Chapter Meeting with Lorelei Stierlen | Pocket Prairies

April 10, 2025

2025 May Chapter Meeting with Cali and Peter | “Experience Nature For Your Mental Health”

March 12, 2025

2025 April Chapter Meeting with Laura Kimberly | “The Joy of Flies”

February 14, 2025

2025 March Chapter Meeting with Brent Franklin | “Amazing world of Odonata”

January 15, 2025

2025 February Chapter Meeting with Liz Tipps and Scott Aldrich | “Let’s Be Careful Out There”

December 17, 2024

2025 January Chapter Meeting with Class of 2024 | Ted Talks

November 15, 2024

2024 December Blackland Prairie Chapter Holiday Party

October 14, 2024

2024 November Chapter Meeting with Max Anton | Mollusks: Lone Star Land Snails

September 13, 2024

2024 October Chapter Meeting with Curtis Jones, Ph.D. | Kaput® Feral Hog Bait: An Effective Tool for Controlling Feral Hog Populations in Texas

August 17, 2024

2024 September Chapter Meeting with Rich Lefebvre | Wings of Progress: Enhancements and Upcoming Developments for the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center

July 12, 2024

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

June 19, 2024

2024 July Chapter Meeting with Don Walker | Adventures in Herpetology

May 22, 2024

2024 June Chapter Meeting with Janet Smith | Sex in the Garden (Pollination)

April 16, 2024

2024 May Chapter Meeting with Jeff Witt | Wild Frisco!

March 18, 2024

2024 April Chapter Meeting with Dwight Wilson | Learning to Read Tracks and Signs

February 14, 2024

2024 March Chapter Meeting with Dave Powell | Blackland Prairie and Prairie Restoration

January 10, 2024

2024 February Chapter Meeting with Chris Ulch | Native Tribes of North Texas and their Sustainable Natural World

December 18, 2023

2024 January Class of 2023 TMN “Ted Talks”

November 17, 2023

2023 December Blackland Prairie Chapter Holiday Party

October 13, 2023

2023 November Blackland Prairie Chapter Meeting with Kimberlie Sasan | “Galls: Let’s Get Curiously Addicted!”

September 15, 2023

2023 October Chapter Meeting with Amy Martin | Wild DFW: discussing the North Texas Ecotone & its Natural Wonders

August 11, 2023

2023 September Chapter Meeting with David Cowan, North Texas Municipal Water District, Watershed Manager.

July 29, 2023

2023 August Meeting with Nathan Rains | An evening with live Reptiles!

June 19, 2023

2023 July Meeting with Bob Mione | Restoration of Native Grasses and Forbs

May 12, 2023

2023 June Meeting with Bill Woodfin | Climate Change and Texas: Concern and Hope 

April 14, 2023

2023 May Meeting with Dusty Rhoads | Restoring the Horned Lizard habitat

March 24, 2023

2023 April – Sam Crowe | Short Survey of Migratory Birds

February 19, 2023

2023 March – Karin and Roberto Saucedo | Living in Harmony with America’s Song Dog

January 27, 2023

2023 February – Omar Boconegra | Black-capped vireo recovery

December 16, 2022

2023 January – Class of 2022 TMN “Ted Talks”

November 13, 2022

2022 December – Blackland Prairie Chapter Holiday Party

October 14, 2022

2022 November – Dr. Faoud Jabar | Nature-based Solutions for Water Quality and Flood Mitigation

September 18, 2022

2022 October – Dr. Raghavan Srivasan | Soil and Water Assessment: Understanding Land Management Practices in Today’s World

July 15, 2022

2022 August – Chase T. Brooke | Conservation in Collin County: opportunities, challenges, and goals for our natural spaces. 

July 1, 2022

2022 July – Amy Martin | The Nature of the Moon

May 31, 2022

2022 June – Dr. David Baker | The Search for Another Earth

April 21, 2022

2022 May – Nicole Neigel | Making your Nature Outings Accessible

March 24, 2022

2022 April – Carol Clark | Botany for Naturalists

February 21, 2022

2022 March – Dr. Peter Schulze | Obstacles to Environmental Progress

January 19, 2022

2022 February – Bill Holston | North Texas Trail Master

January 1, 2022

2022 January – Virginia Rose | Birdability

November 1, 2021

2021 November – Jennifer O’Loughlin-Brooks | NaturePsyche

October 4, 2021

2021 October – Jean Suplick | Mycology 101

September 1, 2021

2021 September – Dr. Megan O’Connell | Climate Change and Plant Phenology

August 1, 2021

2021 August – Dr. Carly Aulicky | Insights of a Dancing Bird: Lessons Learned from Tropical Forests to Prairies

July 1, 2021

2021 July – Kimberlie Sasan | The Wonderful World of Backyard Mothing

May 24, 2021

2021 June – Brandon Belcher | Big Challenges and Complex Problems

May 2, 2021

2021 May – Laurie Sheppard | “Migrating Birds of Collin and Grayson County”

March 25, 2021

2021 April – Carol Clark | The Flowers of the Blackland Prairie

February 11, 2021

2021 March – Amy Monroy | The Heard Gardens: A History of Native Plants in Three Acres or So

January 27, 2021

2021 February – Ernie Stokely | From Quarks to You and Me: We are All In This Together

January 1, 2021

2021 January – Rick Travis | North Texas Trees Highly Prized by Wildlife

 2020 
December 8“The Junipers of Texas”Chase Brooke
November 10“Texas Native Cats and the Role of Advocacy” Monica Morrison
October 13Interpreting Wildlife Track and SignDwight Wilson
September 8“Texas Native Plants and Climate Change”Dr. George Diggs
August 11Restoring Prairie Habitat on Public LandDave Powell
July 14Forest Health: The Advance of the Emerald Ash BorerMike Sills
June 9“The Three Initiatives of the Trinity Coalition” Steve Smith
MayPostponed: COVID-19
AprilPostponed: COVID-19
March 10“13 Things You Need to Know about Poison Ivy”Amy Martin
February 11“A Day in the Life of the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center”Erich Neupert
January 14Blackland Prairie Chapter Open House and 2020 Kickoff for MembersTom Shackelford, President

 2019 
December 10“Fire Ecology of the Blackland Prairie and How Prescribed Fire is Being Used to Restore the Prairie”Brandon Belcher
November 12
“Frisco Wetlands Environmental Restoration Project: Signs of Success”
Lynde Dodd & Jim Frisinger
October 8“How to Discover a New Planet”Dr. David Baker
September 10“The Importance of Fungi in Ecosystems and Common Mushrooms in North Central Texas”Denis Benjamin
August 13“Texas Nature Trackers: Discovering Populations & Documenting Change for Conservation”.Tania Homayoun
July 9“Prairies and Milkweeds”Matt White
June 11“Management of Roadside Vegetation and Wildflowers”Jacob Eickstead
May 14“How iNaturalist Influences Land Management and Guides Public Policy”Sam Kieschnick
April 9“Making an Impression: Tales and Tips from 50 Years Teaching about Nature”Sally Evans
March 12“Researching the Alligator Snapping Turtles in the Trinity River”Carl Franklin
February 12“Habitat Restoration of Large & Small Plots and Unintended Consequences”Bob Mione
January 8Blackland Prairie Chapter Open House and 2019 Kickoff for MembersMike Roome, President
   
 2018 
December 11“Partnering for Natural Success”Roger Scott
November 13“Rainwater Harvesting”Daniel Cunningham
October 9“Driving Sustainability Through Campus Transformation”Thea Junt and Craig Lewis
September 11Personal Experience Raising Monarchs: 6 weeks of Learning, Defeat and Triumph”Clyde Camp
August 14“Dragonflies”Omar Bocanegra
July 10“Sex in the Garden”Janet Smith
June 12“From the First Quark to You – We are all in this together”Ernie Stokley
May 8“Fundamentals of Forest Ecology”Chris Ebling
April 10“Citizen Science”Marsha May
March 13”What’s New in the World of Monarch Butterflies?”Carol Clark
February 13”Light Pollution – More Than a Barrier to Sky GazingTom Fleming
January 9”Open House. Welcome Back Members, Come Join Visitors”Mike Roome, President
   
 2017 
December 12“This Badlands Tortoise is 34 Million Years Old and at The Heard”Pat Kline
November 14“Prairies in Old Cemeteries”Candace Fountoulakis
October 10“The Urban Harvest: Foraging in the City”Daniel Cunningham
September 12“Reptiles with a particular emphasis on Texas”David Mead
August 8“Past Climates: Putting the Climate Puzzle Together with Models”Dr. Angela Osen
July 11“13 Things You Need to Know About the Poison Oak and Ivy Rash”Amy Martin
June 13“Frogs!”Scott Kiester
May 9“Dead Zones in Rivers and the Gulf of Mexico and Their Causes”Donald Harper
April 11“Zika and Other Issues”Daphne Lynch
March 14“New Frisco Wetlands in the Hackberry Creek and Stewart Creek Drainages”Jon Loxley, Jim Frisinger, Jayce Proctor
February 14“Texas Wild Cats”Monica Morrison
January 10“2016 Successes and 2017 Opportunities” 

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