By Randolph Watson
Service is at the heart of the Texas Master Naturalist program’s mission. Often, our members are the ones providing volunteer service at Seabourne Creek Nature Park. At other times, we offer opportunities to the community to contribute their time, energy, and expertise to improve the natural environment around us.
This past Winter 2025, employees from Western EcoSystems Technologies, Inc. (WEST) came out to Seabourne Creek Nature Park to work in the Wetlands and the Bird Viewing Area. These employees were in Sugar Land for their annual meeting and set time aside to roll up their sleeves, put on their waterproof boots, and get a little bit dirty at Seabourne Creek Nature Park.
Texas Master Naturalist Coastal Prairie Chapter members Jerry Trenta, Sal Cardenas, Fran Wilcox, Monte Hambleton, Bill Johnson, and Randolph Watson provided direction, answered questions, and joined them in work fun. We were all very impressed with the WEST team’s hard work, creative ideas, and camaraderie. They finished these projects so quickly that they had time to cut down some baccharis and huisache in the Prairie (and they loved doing that, too).
WEST partnered with us at the park in 2023 as well. Several of their employees came to Seabourne Creek and worked with us in the Prairie and around Seabourne Lake. For this visit, we asked them to help with three projects: prepare the wetlands roosting racks for spring, construct a maintenance pathway in the bird sanctuary for our volunteers who refill the feeders, and upgrade the water drip pond in the bird blind.
The Texas Master Naturalist Coastal Prairie Chapter sends a big thank you to Western EcoSystems Technologies, Inc. for their dedication to preserving our local ecosystem.
All photos by Randolph Watson