Elm Fork ChapterClick the Project Number to read more about each project.
| PROJECT NUMBER | PROJECT NAME | PROJECT LOCATION | PROJECT MANAGER | STATUS |
| P-141204 | 4-H Entomology | Denton County | Diana Hatch | Active |
| Educating 4-H youth in insect classification and life cycles by helping them collect and preserve insects for youth fair contests. | ||||
| P-070510 | Advisory, Educational, & Outreach Services | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Project Coordinator | Active |
| Providing education and public outreach to various public groups and events. | ||||
| P-160211 | AgriLife Office Services | Denton (Denton County) | Van Elliott | Active |
| Assisting the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Office staff by greeting and giving directions to visitors between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. each weekday. | ||||
| P-060413 | Angler Education | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Beverly Lyttaker | Active |
| Leading workshops on recreational fishing; teaching youth and adults how to be safe and ethical anglers. | ||||
| P-010203 | Benthic Monitoring | Denton area (Denton County) | John & Adelaide Bodnar | Active |
| Collecting and identifying aquatic macroinvertebrates from local streams to determine water quality. | ||||
| P-050311 | Bob Jones Nature Center | Southlake (Tarrant County) | Jan Lapine | Active |
| Helping restore and preserve plants and wildlife and educate the public through various activities for 758 acres of the Eastern Cross Timbers Ecosystem open to the public for education and outdoor activities. | ||||
| P-100312 | Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) | 1700 University Dr., Ft. Worth (Tarrant County) | Norma Wilkerson | Active |
| Cataloging plants, providing educational programs for the public, and more. Visit www.brit.org. | ||||
| P – 130214 | BryoTexana | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Jeanne Erickson | Active |
| Assisting the project manager in the collection, processing, and recording of specimen data on mosses, liverworts and hornworts found in the area. Processed specimens are sent to the Herbarium at Texas A&M. | ||||
| P-040708 | Clear Creek Heritage Center | Denton (Denton County) | Clay Thurmond | Active |
| Helping with trail maintenance and construction, assisting with nature hikes, leading educational outreach for school children; and assisting with research, conservation, and restoration projects. | ||||
| P-080313 | Denton City Nature Hikes | Denton (Denton County) | Susan Pohlen | Active |
| Leading hikes and providing information about native plants, trees, wildflowers, invasive plants, geology, erosion, animal tracks, birding, wetlands, animal habitat, soil, and more. | ||||
| P-151112 | Denton County Administrative Complex | Denton (Denton County) | Van Elliott | Active |
| Helping educate Denton County employees and the public about nature, native flora and fauna and other interesting ecological facts about Denton County. | ||||
| P-040708TR | Denton ISD Days at Clear Creek | Denton (Denton County) | Sharon Betty | Active |
| Providing educational experiences to complement the Denton ISD field trips for 2nd graders in the spring and 4th graders in the fall. | ||||
| P-091009 | DFW Wildlife Coalition | North Texas | Dave Ford | Active |
| Answering hot line phone calls about wildlife emergencies, such as out of nest babies and animal conflicts with people. | ||||
| P-051013 | Elm Fork Education Center | Denton (Denton County) | Erin Tran | Active |
| Guiding groups of children and their adult chaperones between activities conducted in and around the Environmental Sciences Building on the UNT campus. | ||||
| P-190315 | Elm Fork Nature Preserve/McInnish Park | Carrollton (Dallas County) | Steve Romaine | Active |
| Highlighting the preserve as an outstanding park for serious birding. | ||||
| P-190314 | Farmers Branch Historical Park | Farmers Branch (Dallas County) | Steve Romaine | Active |
| Promoting the park for birding and bird tours. | ||||
| P-160309 | Flower Mound Foundation | Flower Mound (Denton County) | Diane Wetherbee | Active |
| Working to help preserve the Mound by eliminating woody plants and invasive species, and conducting educational programs for the public on prairies and their importance. | ||||
| P-160310 | Flower Mound Nature Hikes | Flower Mound(Denton County) | Diane Wetherbee | Active |
| Conducting guided interpretive hikes on trails in different areas within Flower Mound town limits on a monthly basis. | ||||
| P-120209 | Fort Worth Botanical Gardens |
Fort Worth (Tarrant County) | Jan Lapine | Active |
| Participating in educational programs and special events and working in the gardens. | ||||
| P-130808 | Fort Worth Nature Center | Fort Worth (Tarrant County) | Betty Zajac | Active |
| Helping to care for animals, guiding canoe trips, leading nature walks, working on trails habitat restoration and facilities construction, and hosting in the visitor center. | ||||
| P-160908 | Furneaux Creek Nature Trail | Carrollton (Denton County) | Richard Johnson | Active |
| Leading activities to restore the green belt with native plants, including butterfly gardens, to provide a natural ecosystem for wildlife along Furneaux Creek, and providing educational activities such as bird walks and nature talks. | ||||
| P-160714 | Green Acres Farm Memorial Park | Flower Mound (Denton County) | Becky Bertoni | Active |
| Preserving and appreciating the park land by maintaining a monarch station, restoring a prairie, monitoring 7 bluebird boxes, and observing and recording plants, insects, animals in the park. | ||||
| P-160715 | Growing UP Wild | Trophy Club (Denton County) | Jan Hodson & Veronica Ruangskul | Active |
| Working with Parks and Recreation and with schools and Keep TC Wild to establish environmental education programs for people of all ages in the Trophy Club and Roanoke areas. | ||||
| P-161013 | iNaturalist | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Mary Morrow | Active |
| Posting photos and details about anything in nature, except humans, to iNaturalist.org, recording the date and location of the observation, to help monitor changes in biodiversity. | ||||
| P-051110 | Land Management Awareness | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Rob Roy | Active |
| Helping private landowners assess their property’s current wildlife habitat and making recommendations how to improve it. | ||||
| P-070308 | LBJ National Grasslands Misc. Conservation Programs | Wise County | Jeanne Erickson | Active |
| Maintaining and monitoring bluebird nesting boxes, and assisting in the collection of lichen species on the property. | ||||
| P-101209 | Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystems Research Facility (LAERF) | Lewisville (Denton County) | Active | |
| Assisting with work for studies on the management of aquatic plants. | ||||
| P-121212 | Lewisville Ind. School District Outdoor Lrng Cntr. (LISDOLA) | Lewisville (Denton County) | Deborah Estes | Active |
| Documenting species of plants and animals, building and maintaining trails and native plant demonstration gardens, and assisting with outdoor education classes. | ||||
| P-040512 | Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA) | Lewisville (Denton County) | Scott Kiester | Active |
| Leading nature hikes for students and the public, assisting with bird banding, prairie and wetland restoration, trail building and maintenance, angler education, nest box maintenance, manning the visitor center and giving tours of the homestead area. | ||||
| P-171207 | Nest Watch | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Sharon Clark | Active |
| Helping to track status and trends in the reproductive biology of birds, including when nesting occurs, number of eggs laid, how many eggs hatch, and how many hatchlings survive. | ||||
| P-080214 | Project Feederwatch | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Karen Mangum | Active |
| Counting birds that appear in your count site and reporting the highest number of individuals that you see in view at one time to scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. | ||||
| P-190110 | Quick Response (QR) Code Library | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Michele Rawleigh | Active |
| Creating and maintaining a digital reference library that can be used at several Master Naturalist project sites, particularly those visited by the public. | ||||
| P-060212 | Ray Roberts State Park | Isle du Bois & Johnson Branch (Denton County) | Chuck Thefford and Denise Thompson | Active |
| Leading guided hikes, monitoring and maintaining bluebird boxes, greeting Nature Center visitors, and assisting TPWD with various educational events including the development of a new park Field Guide. | ||||
| P-091211 | Science With Attitude (SWAt) | Denton County | Carolyn Trivette | Active |
| Providing assistance with the Junior Master Naturalist and Junior Master Gardener programs. school gardens and outdoor learning centers, and demonstrating nature science kits to children’s classes. | ||||
| P-140410 | Speakers Bureau | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Karen Mangum | Active |
| Matching requests from the community with the appropriate MN speaker for various topics. | ||||
| P-100513 | Texas Native Plant Art Exhibition | Denton ISD (Denton County) | Marilyn Blanton | Active |
| Providing elementary students a creative way to learn about native Texas plants through an art contest with judging and displays in the community. | ||||
| P-080314 | Texas Our Heritage Demonstration Garden | Highland Village (Denton County) | Active | |
| Working with Denton County Master Gardeners Association on maintaining an educational garden at Heritage Elementary School by changing the seasonal signage displays. | ||||
| P-140311 | Trees and Forests Management | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Rita Lokie | Active |
| Providing education, outreach, and service dedicated to the better management of trees and forests within the three counties of Denton, Cooke, and Wise. | ||||
| P-130912 | Trophy Club Nature Trails | Trophy Club (Denton County) | Tom Mills | Active |
| Monitoring water erosion control, studying aquatic life, and providing trail maintenance for 450 acres of woodlands, grasslands, and waterways. | ||||
| P-180913. | Valley Vista Nature Park | Lewisville (Denton County) | Michele Rawleigh | Active |
| Valley Vista Park is a 23 acre abandoned post oak savannah that is being transformed into a nature park by the City of Lewisville. Now in the initial stages of planning and development, Master Naturalists can have a significant role in creating a natural education and recreation environment. | ||||
| P-151203 | Water Quality Monitoring (Stream Team) | Denton, Cooke, and Wise Counties | Jonathan Reynolds | Active |
| Testing water at stream locations on at least a monthly basis. Water quality is tested for temperature, turbidity, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, E. coli, nutrient levels, etc. | ||||
| P-180308 | Wildlife Rehab and Education | North Texas | Barbara Kraus | Active |
| Helping licensed rehabbers with orphaned, ill, or displaced wildlife. This project includes FM Wild!, an educational program for adults at FM Community Activity Center and for children at Heritage Park Trailhead. | ||||