This calendar includes Heartwood’s scheduled chapter, volunteer, and training events.
For a list of unscheduled (work at your own pace) volunteer activities, check out the approved chapter activities: Heartwood Volunteer Projects
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The Grand Opening of the Pines and Prairies Chapter, NPSOT, propagation station at W.G. Jones State Forest kicks off the New Year! The station will be managed by David Lemons and Jessica Mauch. Work days will be held every Sunday afternoon and Friday morning. Martin Simonton has planted nearly 200 species from seed and is donating... Read More →
Events: Interested in volunteering or want to learn more about an event? Email Jaden Kelly, the W.G. Jones Conservation Education Coordinator at [email protected] Woodlands Christian Homeschool Fellowship Fieldtrip: March 24th, 2023 (9:30AM-12:00PM) Participants: 40 youth (5-14 years old) and 10-15 parent chaperones Location: W G Jones State Forest, 1328 Farm to Market Rd 1488, Conroe, TX 77384, Sweetleaf Trail... Read More →
Lake Houston Wilderness Park is starting a Garden Club every Friday from 10am-12pm. We are focused only on native plants to our area. Volunteers will help with seeding in our new nursery, seeding in the park, weeding in our pollinator garden, and helping to create new pollinator habitat around the park. This is a new... Read More →
The 12th annual Earth Day GreenUp is nearly here. Team up with family and friends to target litter in our parks and green spaces. You’ll help keep our community beautiful while enjoying the outdoors. Each year more than a thousand GreenUp volunteers remove over 4,500 pounds of litter - the equivalent of 76 of our curbside trash carts! How to... Read More →
Read: Unit 24: Citizen Science Unit 10: The Nature of Naming
NOTE: Other volunteer opportunities are available directly with Mercer; however, fundraising events aren't eligible for volunteer hours. Helping as a cashier, carrying plants to cars, directing traffic all help the fundraiser become a success. Though these activities can't be counted in VMS, they make a huge difference to Mercer. To volunteer for one of these... Read More →
Ornithology
Come join Master Naturalist Stephen Hughes on a hike through the trails along Harper’s Horsepen Branch. Pick up litter as you hike from the Harper’s Landing Park, to the head of the creek, then hike along some wooded trails. The hike will take you to a lake north of the creek, for a rest and... Read More →
The Ambassador program is Bayou Land Conservancy's adult environmental education program. It is offered twice a year with classes held on weekends. As an Ambassador, you will learn about the unique features of the local ecology and all the exciting work that BLC does. After completing the program, you will have a better understanding of... Read More →
Join TXMN at Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center in Humble on March 25 from 2 - 3:30 p.m. for a presentation by Elizabeth White-Olsen of GO Native Landscaping. Along with many species of wildlife in our country, populations of Texas Gulf Coast butterflies are increasingly threatened by habitat loss and other factors. In... Read More →
