Hello Blackland Prairie Chapter! Looking for a volunteer opportunity that will get you outside in the fresh air? Have we got a deal for you! You can spend Friday mornings on the beautiful Heard Sanctuary helping to maintain areas that need vegetation removal. Find out more below! Event: Heard… Read More →
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VH – Heard Sanctuary Restoration & Preservation Projects
Hello Blackland Prairie Chapter! Looking for a volunteer opportunity that will get you outside in the fresh air? Have we got a deal for you! You can spend Friday mornings on the beautiful Heard Sanctuary helping to maintain areas that need vegetation removal. Find out more below! Event: Heard… Read More →
(VH) Clymer Meadow Seed Harvesting
Event: Clymer Meadow Seed Harvesting Date: Monday, August 30, 2021 Time: 8:00 AM Work Plan: Volunteers are needed to harvest seed for use at the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center. This is a great opportunity to involve individuals from multiple projects and partners, working together, towards a common goal of restoration… Read More →
2021 August – Dr. Carly Aulicky | Insights of a Dancing Bird: Lessons Learned from Tropical Forests to Prairies
Charlise Hill-Larson, 2019 We are so pleased to welcome Dr. Carly Aulicky for our August Chapter Meeting. Carly is the North Texas Director of Outreach and Stewardship for the Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT). In her position, Carly acts as a resource and spokesperson for management and conservation of native prairies. Carly monitors NPAT properties and conservation easements, collects biodiversity data, holds educational workshops and talks, and coordinates volunteer efforts in programs and projects.
Ode to Virus
Michelle Connally, 2018 Starting in April 2020, the Shaking of the Trees newsletter provided myself and others a connection to our fellow chapter members in a time of isolation. Hooked from Edition 1 including posts about Cynthia’s Frankford Prairie Wild Hyacinths, Donna Cole’s brown snake, Clyde’s owls, a link to… Read More →
2021 Re-certification Pin – Side Oats Grama
Deborah Canterbury, 2014 This year’s pin is the Side-Oats Grama, the state grass. So, here is your did-ja-know re: side-oats gramma. First, local information. Dave Powell says that side-oats grama is on the three locations at which he volunteers/manages. “We seeded Wylie, it was already at Erwin Park in McKinney…. Read More →
Clymer Beauty
By Tom Shackelford, 2018 Visiting and working at the Clymer Meadow is a siren song for Master Naturalists in this area of Texas. Enjoy the beauty in the photos (Click on each photo for new window of the larger image) Follow this link to learn about this Nature Conservancy land.
(VH) Clymer Meadow Preserve
Clymer Meadow Preserve Gilgai are one of the unusual features at Clymer. These microtopographic features are irregular basins arranged in honeycomb-like patterns on level clay soils. Their ability to hold water influences the plant communities within the basin and on the micro ridges creating distinct ecosystems in and around… Read More →
(VH) Clymer Meadow Preserve
Clymer Meadow Preserve Gilgai are one of the unusual features at Clymer. These microtopographic features are irregular basins arranged in honeycomb-like patterns on level clay soils. Their ability to hold water influences the plant communities within the basin and on the micro ridges creating distinct ecosystems in and around… Read More →
(VH) Clymer Meadow Preserve
Clymer Meadow Preserve Gilgai are one of the unusual features at Clymer. These microtopographic features are irregular basins arranged in honeycomb-like patterns on level clay soils. Their ability to hold water influences the plant communities within the basin and on the micro ridges creating distinct ecosystems in and around… Read More →