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Chapter meeting – Time to Restore
February 6 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
When: February 6th
What time?: Doors open at 5:30, potluck at 6pm, business meeting at 6:30pm, Presentation begins at 7pm
Where: Carbide Park, our usual meeting place. Also available via zoom, information sent in chapter meeting
Please join us for the February 6 Chapter Meeting of the GBAC-TMN. Our guest speaker is David Gwin, the Texas State Coordinator for USA-NPN’s Time to Restore project. David’s presentation is a version of the workshop he gave at the 2024 Texas Master Naturalist Annual Meeting:
Time to Restore: A Multi-State Citizen Science Project to Connect People, Plants and Pollinators!
When planting to support pollinators, we need to know which native species to plant to provide nectar during critical seasonal periods, and how these plants will respond to changes in climate including more variable weather conditions across time. A new and exciting project across the four states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, called Time to Restore, seeks to generate better information about nectar availability and ripe seed timing to help those working on pollinator restoration know what to plant and when to harvest seeds. In this presentation we review the changes we are already seeing in the timing of native plant and pollinator activity in the south-central US and how this information can be used to support climate-smart plantings. Participants will learn how data collected as part of this project can add to their native garden, wildscape or favorite natural area.
We hope to see you there!
