VSP: Houston Native Prairie Association – Seed Sorting & Pizza Party

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

Registration required - click here Annual Seed Sorting and Pizza Party at the Red Cross Building, 2700 Southwest Freeway. Coastal Prairie Conservancy and Houston Native Prairie Association of Texas join together to host this special event. Roll up your sleeves and help sort the seeds from the chaff while you visit with your prairie friends.... Read More →

AT: Our Prairies and A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas with Historian Dan Worrall

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

Hybrid. In Person (Houston) or via Zoom (inquire for link) Join us as Dan Worrall talks about Houston’s Prairies and our undiscovered or forgotten past. With his latest book, “A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas,” the retired Shell geologist ventures back 30,000 years to the last Glacial Age. With assistance from Rice University geologist... Read More →

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VSP: Coastal Prairie Conservancy & Houston-Native Prairies Association of Texas’ Seed Cleaning Party

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

"The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) & Houston-Native Prairies Association of Texas (HNPAT) are hosting a Seed Cleaning & Packing Pizza Party at the 1/25/23 HNPAT monthly meeting. Learn how to clean wild collected prairie plant seeds for growing out. Prairie plant seeds collected from the wild last year will be packed into envelopes to be distributed... Read More →

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VSP: KPC Seed Cleaning & Packing Pizza Party

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

Free Pizza!  Save the date: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 is the annual Seed Cleaning and Packing Pizza Party sponsored by Katy Prairie Conservancy (KPC) in conjunction with Houston Chapter - Native Prairies Association of Texas (HNPAT). Event will be at 6:30 p.m. (pizza), 7:00 p.m. (seed cleaning starts) at the Red Cross Building, 2700 Southwest Fwy,... Read More →

Native Plant Society Potluck Plant and Seed Swap

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

Thursday, November 21, 2019 The American Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77098 Come one, come all! Join us for the yearly plant and seed swap. Bring all your extra native seeds and plants to share – and bring a box to take home some new finds! We ask that you share any... Read More →

AT: Indigenous Snakes of Texas

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

Laura and Adrian Berg of Crossbone Corns will present on Snakes of Texas. Educating people about the snakes that are indigenous to Texas is a passion at Crossbone Corns. Laura and Adrian feel that if people understand the native wildlife, they are more likely to respect it. That respect makes nature safer for the animals... Read More →

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AT: Author Michael Eason- Wildflowers of Texas

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

Houston Chapter of Native Prairies Association of Texas- Wildflowers of Texas author Michael Eason will be our special March speaker! Those of you who volunteered for the Millennium Seed Bank will remember collecting with Michael Eason. He now works in the private sector as a conservation botanist for Texas Flora, a Facebook group devoted to... Read More →

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AT: HNPAT- Whooping Cranes

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

Dr. Wade Harrell, the U.S. Whooping Crane Coordinator at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, will present on Whooping Crane conservation. As a fifth generation Texan with a passion for conservation, his early years in South Texas afforded him his enthusiasm for wildlife, marine life and ecosystems. He has degrees from Texas A&M-Kingsville and Oklahoma State University.... Read More →

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AT: Moths of Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Red Cross Building 2700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX, United States

Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge Manager Stuart Marcus will present a program on Moths of Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Stuart Marcus is the first and current Refuge Manager of the 30,000 acre Trinity River National Wildlife located in Liberty, TX. He graduated from the University of... Read More →

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