Project Title |
Project Description |
Project Leader |
Start/End Date |
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Salado Work Day | Volunteers work in conjunction with other organizations to beautify, landscape, and maintain this sculpture garden near Mill Creek in Salado. Volunteers can also conduct tours of the Sculpture Garden Wildscape for groups visiting Salado in coordination with Salado Tourism and Keep Salado Beautiful. Tours will focus on the purpose of a wildscape, the four wildscape requirements, creating a backyard wildscape, and how this has been implemented at the sculpture garden. | Lynna Pitts | Ongoing |
Angler Education | Volunteers (both certified and un-certified Angler Educators) set up “Docks” of learning stations that the participants (typically elementary school age children) cycle through such as, Casting, Fish Habitat, Knot Tying, Angling Ethics, Bait and Tackle, and Fishing Regulations and Safety. | Ongoing | |
St. Francis Episcopal Church Garden | Refreshing the church grounds with mulching, Texas native plants, and the removal of invasive weeds. | Vestry and Joann Millican | Ongoing |
Andy Wells Park Maintenance (Adopt A Park) | Once a month, CTMN volunteers work to maintain the appearance of this Killeen City Park near Nolan Creek. | Gail Hughling | Ongoing |
Nolan Creek Hike and Bike Trail (Adopt A Park) | On the fifth Thursday of month (when applicable), CTMN volunteers work to maintain and beautify this trail along Nolan Creek in downtown Belton. | Mary Ann Everett | Ongoing |
Bastrop State Park Seedling Planting | CTMN volunteers travel to Bastrop State Park to assist in the replanting of seedling to help restore the forests destroyed by the catastophic fire of 2011. | Complete | |
Mother Neff State Park | CTMN volunteers assist Mother Neff State Park in various park projects. | Bill Abright | Ongoing |
Stream Team Water Quality Monitoring | Certified Texas Stream Team volunteers collect water quality data on lakes, rivers, and streams using a test kit that measures physical and chemical parameters in the water. | Richard McCarthy | Ongoing |
Flying Wild | Targeted for the middle-school audience,Flying WILD offers practical hands-on classroom and outdoor field investigation experiences connecting real-world experiences in bird biology, conservation and natural history. | Liz Poole | Ongoing |
Miller Springs Nature Series | CTMN volunteers, in conjunction with the Miller Springs Alliance, conducts a variety of nature programs for the public in this area adjacent to Belton Dam. | Mary Ann Everett | Ongoing |
Member Mentorship Program | Certified Master Naturalists can be mentors new class members to assist the new class member in any area necessary to help them through the certification process. | Linda Fairlie | Ongoing |
Texas Invaders | Help identify and catalog Texas invasive species into a statewide database. | Ongoing | |
CoCoRAHS – Community Collaborative Rain Hail Snow | Trained volunteers with special rain gauges monitor precipitation and report their findings daily through a website link along with others across the continent. This reporting provides valuable information to the NWS and NOAA regarding precipitation totals. | Don Wyatt | Ongoing |
TPWD Texas Nature Trackers | A citizen science monitoring effort designed to involve volunteers in gathering scientific data on species of concern in Texas.
This includes: Biological Inventory Team Project, Box Turtle Survey Project, Texas Amphibian Watch, Texas Black-tailed Prairie Dog Watch, Texas Horned Lizard Watch, Texas Hummingbird Roundup, Texas Mussel Watch, Texas Whooper Crane Watch
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Rehanon Pampell | Ongoing |
Biological Inventory Team (BIT) | A group of knowledgeable and enthusiastic “experts” that compile species lists, collect census data, and inform TPWD.
Teams include: invertebrates; plants and rare communities; herps (amphibians and reptiles); and birds
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Rehanon Pampell | Ongoing |
Butterfly and Moth Counts | A citizen science monitoring effort designed to gather data on local butterflies and moths.
We report findings to: NationalMothWeek.org, Texas Natural Diversity Database, DiscoverLife.org, Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA), Moth Photographer Group, Encyclopedia of Life
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Mary Ann Everett | Ongoing |
Encyclopedia of Life – EOL.org | A website trying to document all the world’s knowledge on all of the world’s species.
We report all species findings and submit photos from hosted events.
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Rehanon Pampell | Ongoing |