Mary Ann Melton has earned the 4000-hour milestone pin and the US Presidential Volunteer Service Award. She took her Master Naturalist training in the Lost Pines Chapter in 2009. At Lost Pines, she did some nature photography classes at Bastrop State Park and helped with a children’s activity time at the park. She served on the Steering Committee for the forming chapter in Williamson County where she lives since late 2009. As part of that Steering Committee, she headed up the Training Committee for the 2010 Training Class. When the chapter formed, she was the first Vice President in 2010. In 2011, she became President. At the end of 2011, the Youth Education Committee formed and she has served as chair of that committee up through the present.
In 2013, Mary Ann became the Communications Director overseeing the website and the newsletter. Over time she has volunteered at many of the chapter projects including the WILCO Pollinator Garden, River Ranch County Park, outreach booths in Hutto and Georgetown as well as the many Youth development activities.
Mary Ann uses her photography to document the flora and fauna around her with iNaturalist and eBird. She loves travel and birding. She has taken the Master Entomology Training and is certified for that specialty. She has been writing a biweekly nature column that began in the Hutto News in 2011 and is currently being published in the Taylor Press. In 2018, she served as the chair for the Field Trip Committee for the 2018 Texas Master Naturalist Annual Meeting. In other parts of her life, Mary Ann Melton is a published nature photographer.
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