Put it on your calendar now as we prepare for our 23rd Texas Master Naturalist Program Annual Meeting, an event to gather, learn, and celebrate another year of the Texas Master Naturalist Program. We’re preparing this year’s meeting as an in-person event at the Omni Houston Thursday, October 20th to Sunday October 23rd. This year’s Annual Meeting will... Read More →
Ross Winton, conservation entomologist at TX Parks & Wildlife will advise on maintaining safe spaces for our important native plant pollinators to grow and reproduce.
Learn more about some of the conservation priority pollinators of the Texas Gulf Coast and the native plants on which they rely while also exploring what you can do to help their populations. Ross Winton is the Invertebrate Biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife. His current work is focused on implementing conservation actions for Texas’... Read More →
This talk describes the remarkable range of strategies devised by countless fungi to entrap or hunt prey, whether that be micro-animals, arthropods, bacteria, or even other fungi. You'll hear how serendipitous work by farmers and mycologists led to the discovery of new nematode-trapping mushrooms, and the implications this predation has for the evolution of fungi... Read More →
The date is set! In addition to the Bioblitz event, join Eric Duran and fellow TMN’s Gulf Coast for an special evening in Russ Pittman Park (RPP) of Blacklighting the Pollinators (aka mothing) on Thursday, 10/20/2022, 8:00 PM. You’re invited to Russ Pittman Park (RPP) to help assess the diversity of the park - flowering plants, insects, birds,... Read More →
Get enraptored! Don’t miss this opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes tour of the Houston Audubon Raptor and Education Center. Learn about our native raptors and raptor conservation, meet the raptors up close with lots of photo ops and discover what it takes to run a raptor center. Light refreshments are served.
Interested in helping the Native Prairies Association of Texas at Lawther-Deer Park Prairie? Who: Native Prairies Association of Texas What: "The 4th Saturday monthly workdays offer an opportunity to explore and help maintain this special coastal prairie. For the foreseeable future, we will be working on invasives removal and demo garden." When: 4th Saturday of... Read More →
On the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, we host fun outreach or craft activities at the Butterfly Garden section of the Museum. The topics vary and can include butterfly gardening, native plants, dragonflies, etc. Volunteers are needed to help staff our booth and present the topics above. There will be two shifts per... Read More →
October 22, 2022 10:00AM Name Protect our Pollinators Description Join us to learn all about Budburst, a community science project where researchers, educators, and community scientists work together to answer critical ecological research questions by studying the timing of seasonal change in plants, as well as how they affect important pollinators. During this workshop,... Read More →
Okay, this one might be a bit off our usual events, but we thought we would give it a try. Please let us know how it goes if you attend! Learn the basics of Forest Therapy also known as Forest Bathing (or shinrin-yoku). Forest Bathing is not simply a walk in the woods, it is... Read More →
