We meet every second Tuesday at 7 p.m. Meetings are currently being held online via Zoom as of 2020-2021. Send an email to info@bptmn.org for an invitation.
In Person Meetings are usually held at the Science Resource Center building at the Heard Natural History Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Nature Place, McKinney, Texas.
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September 1, 2021
Dr. O’Connell will be discussing how climate change is altering plant phenology and impacting plant-pollinator…
September 1, 2021
August 1, 2021
Charlise Hill-Larson, 2019 We are so pleased to welcome Dr. Carly Aulicky for our August…
August 1, 2021
| 2020 | ||
| December 8 | “The Junipers of Texas” | Chase Brooke |
| November 10 | “Texas Native Cats and the Role of Advocacy” | Monica Morrison |
| October 13 | Interpreting Wildlife Track and Sign | Dwight Wilson |
| September 8 | “Texas Native Plants and Climate Change” | Dr. George Diggs |
| August 11 | Restoring Prairie Habitat on Public Land | Dave Powell |
| July 14 | Forest Health: The Advance of the Emerald Ash Borer | Mike Sills |
| June 9 | “The Three Initiatives of the Trinity Coalition” | Steve Smith |
| May | Postponed: COVID-19 | |
| April | Postponed: 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 14 | Blackland Prairie Chapter Open House and 2020 Kickoff for Members | Tom 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 8 | Blackland Prairie Chapter Open House and 2019 Kickoff for Members | Mike 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 11 | Personal 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 Gazing | Tom 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” |