Events are listed on the member calendar. You can search by date or topic; change the view from Month to List or Day, and use the color blocks at the top of the calendar to view a specific event category (ie, advanced training, chapter meeting, etc.)
The state offers an online calendar of possible AT events. Not all of these events are approved for AT by our chapter. To request approval, please submit an AT approval request form. Please give us two weeks advance notice for your AT request to be approved, published on website and added to PYW. This provides our membership with plenty of time to plan their AT attendance.
Events approved for AT by other Texas Master Naturalist Chapters are now allowed for AT by our Chapter. Enter your time in VMS as AT:Other Chapter Approved
To earn advanced training hours in 2025, presentations must be in-person or via webinar, and have an interactive Q&A component. However, there are two exceptions: Watching recorded webinars for #TMN Tuesdays and Texas Waters Webinars.
#TMN Tuesdays
Members and members-in-training have until December 31st, of the current year, to record VMS hours for watching recordings that were presented in the current year.
Enter your AT hours under AT: TMN Tuesday. Recordings can be found at: https://txmn.tamu.edu/tmntuesdays/.
Texas Waters Webinars
Watching previously recorded webinars listed on the Texas Waters Specialist website are entered in VMS using AT: TX Water Certification Training.
When watching a LIVE TWS webinar, you may report hours using either
AT: TX Water Certification Training – to count the hours towards TWS certification
or AT: Chapter Approved – if not counting the hours towards TWS certification.
AT committee: Bryan Lewis, Brenda Martin, Susan Richmond, and Clay Thurmond
To contact the committee email [email protected].
January 20 – Black-Footed Ferrets: The Road to Recovery
January 22 – Advancing Trails Webinar Series: Choosing the Right Aggregate: Matching Material to Trail Use and Terrain
January 29 – Advancing Trails Webinar Series: Pressure Treated Wood for Trail Structures
February 10 – #TMN Tuesday
February 24 – Texas Waters Webinar: The Creek in My Backyard – A Guide to Understanding Stream Regulations in Texas
February 26 – Southern Monarch Larva Monitoring Project Training
March 3 – Entomology Short Course
March 10 – #TMN Tuesday
March 10 – Entomology Short Course
March 12 – Texas Waters Webinar: Duck Walk: A Birder’s Improbable Path to Hunting as Conservation
March 17 – Entomology Short Course
March 24 – Entomology Short Course
April 14 – #TMN Tuesday
April 15 – Texas Waters Webinar: 21st Century Texas: Climate, water, science, and society
ONGOING AT OPPORTUNITIES
- Native Prairie Association of Texas (NPAT) Hikes
- Texas Nature Trackers (LIVE on Facebook)
- Monarch Conservation Webinar Series
- Cornell Lab Bird Academy
- Adult programs by the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center
- Any of the Native Landscape Certification Program Classes and most of their programs offered by the Native Plant Society of Texas
- The Citizen Forester Class
- Fly fishing class
- Skywarn class
- Project WILD or Aquatic WILD workshops
- NOLS Wilderness First Aid classes
- Second Saturday Events at the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge
- LLELA Lecture Series
- Friends of LLELA presentations
- SWAt Meetings – 4th Thursday of the month at 9:30am
- Friends of Furneaux Creek Nature Trail Meetings – 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7 pm
- Native Plant Society of Texas Chapter Meetings (check topic to make sure it’s TMN related)
- Audubon educational presentations
- Bird and nature walks offered by nature centers, such as LLELA, Clear Creek, Furneaux Creek
- Master Volunteer Entomology Advanced Training
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, Fort Worth
@Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-Refuge
River Legacy Science Center, Arlington
@riverlegacyparks
Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney
@ConnectwithNature
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center, Cedar Hill
@Dogwood.Canyon.Audubon
Trinity River Audubon Center, Dallas
@TrinityRiverAudubonCenter
Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Center, Lewisville
@LLELALewisvilleLake
Fort Worth Botanic Gardens, Fort Worth
@FortWorthBotanicGarden
Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas
@PerotMuseum
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth
@FWMSH