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The 2023 Annual Conference October 14 Eclipse at El Sauz Ranch is sponsored by the East Foundation.

Vickie Sanders, Class of 2022 – “Clouds. They can be lovely, or provide shade, or promise much needed rain, but on Saturday, October 14, they were NOT what we wanted to see. Eight buses with over 400 Texas Master Naturalists loaded up in McAllen and headed to El Sauz Ranch, very anxious to see what the day held.”

10/25/2023

Prairie Restoration

Partial Solar Eclipse walk at Parkhill Prairie with Rich Jaynes and Amy Martin

Michelle Connally, Class of 2018 – While we explore, the Sun will be undergoing an annular solar eclipse. Because we are outside the central eclipse band, it’ll only be a partial eclipse from our perspective and won’t have the shadow darkening effect of more precise eclipses. But it will be interesting for us to see what changes in sunlight we detect and if it seems to affect wildlife. Bring eclipse glasses for the full impact.

09/15/2023

Chapter MeetingsGeneral

2022 July – Amy Martin | The Nature of the Moon

Tuesday, July 12 7PM CST  Charlise Hill Larson, 2019 and 2021-2022 Vice President We usually think of nature as what surrounds us on Earth. But nature also includes the sky… Read More →

07/01/2022

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