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2020 Issues

December 2020 Midden – Table of Contents

  • Wetland Wanderings: Three Favorite Plants
  • Prairie Ponderings: Rewilding in the Year of the Bison
  • Meet Our Partners: Armand Bayou Nature Center
  • Nest Boxes for Owls
  • State Meeting 2020 Highlights
  • State Meeting Award Winning Photos
  • State Meeting Special Announcements
  • Advanced Training Zooming Along
  • Safety Minute: Watch Out for Asp Caterpillars!
  • Top Ten Quiz: Herons and Egrets
  • Did You Know There are Sun Grant Colleges?
  • Heritage Book Study: Review of The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl
  • Fun Texas Facts
  • December and January Activities

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October 2020 Midden – Table of Contents

  • Wetland Wanderings: The Red-Eared Slider (RES)
  • Prairie Ponderings: Bobcats
  • Coastal Corner: Sea Turtle Adventures (stranded and rescued sea turtles)
  • The Turtle Lady of South Padre  (Ila Loetscher)
  • Connections: Forgotten Roads, Prairies, and the Gulf of Mexico
  • Top Ten Quiz: Ridley’s Believe It or Not Sea Turtles
  • Twenty Years and (Almost) One Hundred Middens!
  • Women in Nature: Mary S. Young (1872-1919)
  • Advanced Training Continues to Zoom
  • Nominating Committee
  • Heritage Book Study: Review of A Farewell to Ice: A Report From The Arctic
  • October/November Activities

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August 2020 Midden – Table of Contents

  • Wetland Wanderings: Plants and Projects During Pandemic
  • Prairie Ponderings:  Prairie Dogs
  • Coastal Corner: A Morning of Memories (found a Kemp’s Ridley!)
  • My Grandmother’s American Elm
  • COVID-19 and Attwater’s Prairie Chickens
  • Flower Garden Banks
  • Night of the Squid (Gulf of Mexico squid species)
  • Big Picture: Quiet Places  (Mars 2020, COVID-19 shutdowns, International Quiet Parks)
  • Marie Asscherick Earns 15,000 Hours
  • Advanced Training Adventures (Chapter AT via ZOOM)
  • Top Ten Quiz: Galveston Bay Area Butterflies
  • Heritage Book Study: Review of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
  • August/September Activities

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June 2020 Midden – Table of Contents

  • Wetland Wanderings: That Snake is Not Smiling – Cottonmouth
  • Prairie Ponderings:  Bison Babies
  • Zooming Along Together
  • Books to Read
  • The Emeritus Program
  • Heritage Book Study Plans
  • Hawk Watch 2020: Hawks at Home
  • Nature Journaling
  • Five Ways to Stay Sane During a Pandemic
  • Coronavirus, Invasive Species and Exponential Growth
  • June/July Activities

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April 2020 Midden – Table of Contents

  • Wetland Wanderings: These boots were made for sloshing
  • Prairie Ponderings: Bison Return
  • Coastal Corner: Our Dedication to Sea Turtles
  • State of the Bay 2020 (Conference)
  • Earth Day, April 22, is 50 Years Old
  • Rosenberg Library Outreach and AT
  • City Nature Challenge 2020: Houston
  • Heritage Book Study: Review of The Secret World of Red Wolves: The Fight to Save North America’s Other Wolf
  • Galveston Bay Area Shells: Top 10 Quiz
  • April/May Activities

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February 2020 Midden – Table of Contents

  • Julie Honored With Distinguished Agent Title
  • Wetland Wanderings: A Celebration of Diversity (World Wetland’s Day)
  • Prairie Ponderings:  Year of the Bison
  • American Bumblebee – 2020 Pin
  • Treasures of the Bay Award Recognition 2019
  • Green Team News
  • AT: Why Ecology Still Matters, Part 4 (Sampling)
  • 2020 Board of Directors
  • Heritage Book Study: Review of Water From Stone: The Story of Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve 
  • Let’s talk about Raptors
  • Top Ten Quiz: Galveston Bay Area Diurnal Raptors
  • February/March Activities

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