Our Chapter Calendar contains all events, past and future. You can view by month or week. You can also have your Android or iPhone calendar automatically include these events, in a color of your choosing, in your smartphone calendar app. or in your own Google online calendar. Look for the Google calendar called “MN-El Camino” as the calendar name to add to your calendar. Our Weekly Events email notice (latest shown below calendar) goes directly to all members and others who have requested it. To submit events for this notice, and the calendar, send them to ECRMNNotification@gmail.com.
Texas Master Naturalist
El Camino Real Chapter
Events Notice
NEW TRAINING CLASS will begin in January. Please pass this web link along to folks you think might be interested in joining our chapter:
https://txmn.org/elcamino/
Event: Let’s Get Outside! Explore nature at the Apache Pass Event Center!
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021 9:00 am
Where: 9132 N FM 908. Drive through the gate and start observing. Sign in sheet will be on a red picnic table near the pavilion.
Details: Join others to observe nature at the historic site on the El Camino Real. Those participating in the Great Texas Wildlife Trails Adopt-A-Loop Project will recognize this as one of the locations for periodic surveys. iNaturalist or eBird observations are encouraged and are required for the GTWT project.
Requirements for Participation: $2 to drop in the donation box at the entrance and the desire to get outside with other folks and observe nature. Read the signs at the entrance to this private property.
VMS: Cit.Sci. – All TPWD Nature Trackers and iNat Observations or Cit. Sci. – Cornell / Audubon Projects: Field Research Hours (If applicable, add “GTWT Adopt-A-Loop Project” to your description of service.)
and/or Community Outreach – Indirect (if you submit a blog sharing your experiences at the location.)
Event: POSGCD Program on Earthkind Landscaping
Date: Friday, October 29, 1:00-4:00 pm
Where: Hybrid event – attend virtually or in person at POSGCD, located at 310 E Ave C in Milano
Details: Register at https://posgcd.org/event/
VMS: AT: By Conservation Partnership Agencies, or similar organizations (include training event info)
Event- Master Naturalist Nature Days
Date: Sat. Nov. 6, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Where- Milam Master Naturalist Wildscape at the Bird and Bee Farm, 1369 CR 334, near Rockdale
Details- We will hand out Master Naturalist information and give away native plants. Wildscape tours will focus on the fall blooming natives.
Volunteer hours- Community Outreach- indirect
Event: iNaturalist and Texas Nature Trackers Presentation AND Volunteer Opportunity
Date: Thursday, November 11, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Where: Patterson Community Center, 609 Mill Ave., Rockdale (turn south off Hwy 79 onto N. Travis Street and it will lead you to it)
Details: Dr. Tania Homayoun with Texas Parks and Wildlife will present a program on iNaturalist and Texas Nature Trackers. This will be a joint program with the Little River Basin Master Gardener Association, and will be open to the public. ECRMN will have an information booth; you will get volunteer hours for helping at the MN booth. If assisting at the booth, please arrive at 9:00 am and plan to help until 12:30 pm Please let Donna Lewis know if you plan to help. ECRMN members are asked to bring refreshments; you will get 1 hour VE (hospitality) for bringing refreshments.
VMS: AT: Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) or TMN Sponsored and/or VE: Community Outreach – Indirect if assisting at the MN booth and/or VE: Hospitality (1 hour) if providing refreshments
Event: CoCoRahs Webinar #79: “Ice Ice Baby – Predicting Freezing Rain Icing and Impacts”
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021 -12:00 PM CST
Where: Online
Details: Speaker will be Jay Shafer with Northern Vermont University-Lyndon (formerly Lyndon State College), Atmospheric Sciences, Lyndonville, VT. This presentation will provide an overview of winter storm systems and the processes that produce wet snowfall and freezing rain. Current methods used to predict ice accretion from freezing rain will be discussed. Impacts from wet snowfall and freezing rain icing on the electric grid will be examined using over a decade of power outage data across Vermont. The current limitations of predicting and observing both wet snow and freezing rain along with opportunities for improved citizen-science observations will be described. Will include a Q&A. To register, visit https://zoom.us/webinar/
VMS: AT: Webinars
Event: November Chapter Meeting
Date: Thursday, November 11
Where: via Zoom
Details: Dr. Paul Crump will present a program about Rare Reptiles and Amphibians from the Post Oak Savannah.
VMS: AT: At a Chapter Mtg, AND VE: Administrative Work, Chapter Meeting
Event- Master Naturalist Nature Days
Date: Sat. Nov. 13, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Where- Milam Master Naturalist Wildscape at the Bird and Bee Farm, 1369 CR 334, near Rockdale
Details- We will hand out Master Naturalist information and give away native plants. Wildscape tours will focus on the fall blooming natives.
Volunteer hours- Community Outreach- indirect
Event- Master Naturalist Nature Days
Date: Sat. Nov. 20, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Where- Milam Master Naturalist Wildscape at the Bird and Bee Farm, 1369 CR 334, near Rockdale
Details- We will hand out Master Naturalist information and give away native plants. Wildscape tours will focus on the fall blooming natives.
Volunteer hours- Community Outreach- indirect