July 2018 Monthly Meeting – Citizen science, kissing bugs, and Chagas disease at the human-wildlife-domestic animal interface in the Southern United States

Speaker: Sarah A. Hamer – Director of Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Wildlife Biologist Title: Citizen science, kissing bugs, and Chagas disease at the human-wildlife-domestic animal interface in the Southern United States Description: Many diseases emerge at the interface of human and animal populations. Chagas disease, caused by a protozoan... Read More →

7th Annual Wish Upon a Butterfly

Our chapter will be hosting a table at the 7th Annual Wish Upon a Butterfly event being held at the BVMNH from 9am-12pm. Please let me know if you would like to help out.  This is a great way to get those volunteer hours!

Stream Team Sampling at Lick Creek

The two Stream Teams will be sampling Lick Creek at the entry and exit locations. If you like to help, please contact either Andrea or Kathryn. Please meet up at the Nature Center Parking lot around 6:45 am.

Texas Waters Specialist Program- Group Discussion Session 3

TDI - Brooks International 14391 S. Dowling Rd, College Station, TX, United States

Our Chapter will again be hosting three group discussion sessions for the Texas Waters Specialist Program to help our members learning more about Texas waters and getting AT hours for this program. Our very own, Kate Cupps, will be facilitating the sessions. Each session will be three hours long. At this third and last group... Read More →

Fossil field trip

By popular demand, we will be having another field trip to the Stone City fossil site along the Brazos River at the SR 21 bridge on Saturday August 4 (Rain day is August 11).  We will meet at 7:30am at the BRTC to carpool and will fossil until it gets too hot to stand.  Access is moderately easy, and the fossils... Read More →

August 2018 Monthly Meeting – Barbara Willy speaking on Landowner-to-Landowner – An Informal Conversation About My Wildlife Restoration for Pollinators

Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History (BVMNH) 3232 Briarcrest Dr., Bryan, TX, United States

Milam County landowner and wildlife enthusiast, Barbara Willy, founder of Monarch Gateway, a non-profit that facilitates the creation of wildlife habitat for pollinators and other species will present her personal 1D1 Wildlife Management Plan for pollinators on her family property Ford Blackland Prairie Pollinator Wildlife Habitat as well as the site’s Blackland Prairie restoration plan... Read More →