Submit your volunteer opportunities, adventure story & pictures, lessons learned, tidbits, book reviews, profiles or anything else you would like to share with chapter members. send to glcnwsltr@gmail.com VMS: Administrative Work: Communications
VMS opportunity: AT: TPWD Wildlife and Land Management Workshops and Programs
VMS opportunity: AT: Texas Waters Certification Training Tuesday, January 17 @ 6:30-7:30 PM CT - Walt Bailey, Regional Interpretive Specialist-Region 4 with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Tuesday, February 7 @ 6:30-7:30 PM CT - Taylor Keys, Program Director with Texan by Nature Thursday, March 9 @ 6:30-7:30 PM CT - Marty Kelly, Natural Resources Specialist-Coastal Fisheries with Texas... Read More →
VMS opportunity: AT: NGO Workshops and Programs on Wildlife Conservation and Land Stewardship Zoom Meeting The NPAT Fayette Prairie Chapter is delighted to host Matt Machacek, USDA-NRCS, for a presentation on adaptative grazing management for prairies. We are all too familiar with over-grazed grasslands. Our disturbance-based prairies, however, co-evolved with grazing mammals and fire. Grazing is... Read More →
Advanced Training Opportunity: VMS Category: Agrilife Land Management and Wildlife Conservation Workshops and Programs Texas A&M AgriLife Extension’s Wildlife & Fisheries Extension Unit is hosting their first annual Wildlife & Fisheries Specialist Academy. The purpose of the Wildlife & Fisheries Specialist Academy is to provide advanced training whereby master volunteers can support or expand specific county... Read More →
VMS opportunity: Education - Informal Annual Family Science Night February 13, Monday 6:30 - 8:00 pm - Bellville Junior High School in Bellville Sponsored in part by B.E.S.T. Bellville Engineering, Science & Technology Booster Club Our chapter had a great time participating in this every year since 2016 and we look forward to being there... Read More →
Advanced Training Opportunity: VMS Category: Agrilife Land Management and Wildlife Conservation Workshops and Programs Texas A&M AgriLife Extension’s Wildlife & Fisheries Extension Unit is hosting their first annual Wildlife & Fisheries Specialist Academy. The purpose of the Wildlife & Fisheries Specialist Academy is to provide advanced training whereby master volunteers can support or expand specific county... Read More →
VMS opportunity: Adopt-a-Highway Volunteers please meet at 8:30 a.m. at the parking lot of the St John Lutheran Church in Rutersville. Be sure to wear sturdy closed toe shoes and long pants. Sun screen, a hat, water and insect repellant are good to bring along with your trash picker upper. Call one of us should... Read More →
VMS opportunity: Indian Creek Nature Area The regular workday for this project is the third Thursday of each month from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Volunteers maintain the pollinator bed and nature trail. Contact project leader Ann Ray for more details.
VMS opportunity: Indian Creek Nature Area The regular workday for this project is the third Thursday of each month from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Volunteers maintain the pollinator bed and nature trail. Contact project leader Ann Ray for more details.
Volunteer Opportunity: VMS Category: Citizen Science (other) (be sure to include Great Backyard Bird Count in the description) Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near... Read More →
VMS opportunity: AT: Agrilife Land Management and Wildlife Conservation Workshops and Programs The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of Austin, Colorado, Fayette, and Washington Counties have developed a series of educational programs to assist new landowners with the concept of agriculture production and rural living. The Multi-County New Landowner Program is designed with you in... Read More →
VMS opportunity: AT: NGO workshops and programs on wildlife conservation and land stewardship The Houston NPSOT chapter will hold a Level 2 workshop on February 18, 2023. Participants must have completed Level 1 before taking the Level 2 course. The class will be held by Zoom. Registration will open February 1, 2023. Level 2, Landscape... Read More →
VMS opportunity: Washington on the Brazos State Historic Site Join us for a workday in the GLC pollinator garden at Washington-on-the-Brazos Historic Site. We’ll be working on cleaning up, cutting back, and pulling out aggressive native and non-native plants. Bring gloves, hand clippers, and small trowel or other tool for digging up weeds, and don’t... Read More →
VMS opportunity: AT: TPWD Wildlife and Land Management Workshops and Programs The Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is hosting an in-person Project Wild workshop. This is a great opportunity to get hands-on learning using the TPWD created Project Wild curriculum. Volunteers who take the training will be well prepared to work with Attwater staff... Read More →
VMS opportunity: Education - informal Chapter members will be leading a group bird count in connection with the Great Backyard Bird Count. In addition, we will host a table for children to make pinecone bird feeders. Watch for more details.
VMS opportunity: La Grange Agrilife Extension Bldg. Native Plant Landscape Our regular workdays to attend the landscape are the 3rd Tuesday of the month from approximately 8 am to 10 am.. The native plant landscape bed is at the Fayette County AgriLife Extension Office on Svoboda Lane in La Grange and has been developed over... Read More →
The two-day workshop will be online on VMS:AT: NGO Workshops and Programs on Wildlife Conservation and Land Stewardship February 21 (8:30 am to 3:30 PM Central Time) and February 23 (8:30 am to 3:30 pm Central Time) The new format of the workshop will allow us to include participants from other states.Stay tuned for further... Read More →
VMS:AT: NGO Workshops and Programs on Wildlife Conservation and Land Stewardship The two-day workshop will be online on February 21 (8:30 am to 3:30 PM Central Time) and February 23 (8:30 am to 3:30 pm Central Time) The new format of the workshop will allow us to include participants from other states.Stay tuned for further... Read More →
VMS opportunity: Administrative work: Board/committee work The TMN GLC board meeting will be held February 24, 2023 beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Winedale HIstorical Complex. All chapter members are invited to attend.
VMS opportunity: AT: NGO workshops and programs on wildlife conservation and land stewardship The Native Plant Society of Texas 2023 Spring Symposium is coming to Austin, Texas! This year’s event will take place at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in South Austin on Saturday February 25. The cost is $50 for NPSOT and LBJWC... Read More →
VMS opportunity: Education - informal Texas Independence Day Celebration” is an annual two-day living history celebration on Saturday, February 25th from 10am to 6pm and Sunday, February 26th from 10am to 3pm on the 293-acre Washington on the Brazos State Historic Site to celebrate where 59 delegates bravely met in 1836 to make a formal... Read More →
VMS opportunity: Education - informal Texas Independence Day Celebration” is an annual two-day living history celebration on Saturday, February 25th from 10am to 6pm and Sunday, February 26th from 10am to 3pm on the 293-acre Washington on the Brazos State Historic Site to celebrate where 59 delegates bravely met in 1836 to make a formal... Read More →
