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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Lake Houston Wilderness Park is looking for birders! The park has a growing birder population, but there are so many cool places that haven’t been explored. If you would like to help with this, show up at 8am on the 3rd Sunday of every month and bring your binoculars! VMS CODE: FR: LAKE HOUSTON WILDERNESS PARK:... Read More →
Bayou Land Conservancy and Houston Audubon bird walks/surveys at Creekside Park West begin at 7:30 a.m. from the George Mitchell Nature Preserve Trailhead, the parking area located at the end of Dr. Anne Snyder Drive, and walk approximately 2.5 miles until around 10:00 a.m. The walk meanders along the Spring Creek Nature trail, a natural... Read More →
Join the team to work in the pollinator gardens and possibly sweep for litter. Bring your own garden gloves and tools. For the latest information, download Slack and join the Jones Forest channel. Team chat is found there. VMS: RM: W. G. Jones State Forest (Maintaining Pollinator Garden or Litter Pick-up)
Trail maintenance, volunteer work crew and garden group. For information on volunteer opportunities at Kleb Woods, contact [email protected] or call (281) 357-5324. VMS CODE: RM: Kleb Woods
For the October program for Piney Woods, Paul Gregg will be presenting "Timing & Location when Birding including Lower Rio Grande Valley Bird Photos". Paul will share strategies on how to be successful birding and ultimately taking photos. He'll be showing many of his bird photos from his and Carol's November 2022 trip to various... Read More →
Presenter: Dr. Danielle Walkup, Research Assistant Professor Natural Resources Institute, Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas A&M University Webinar Description: Rare and secretive snake species with low occupancy and detection rates are expensive to monitor and study using traditional box traps. Advancements in camera trap technology have provided wildlife researchers with a more efficient technique to... Read More →
Business meeting: 6p at the SHSU Woodlands Campus, 3380 College Park Dr, Conroe, Texas 77384 (fourth floor). Program: "How to Read a Plant - The Effect of Temperature on Form" presented by Justin Williams, Ph.D Justin Williams received his undergraduate and Ph. D. at the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Billie... Read More →
Teri MacArthur will speak on "The Destructive Nature of Invasive Species" at the monthly meeting of Pines and Prairies Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT). Teri is a member of the Heartwood Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist as well as the Pines and Prairies Chapter, Native Plant Society of Texas. She is the... Read More →
When you think of bees, you probably imagine the things they do on sunny days, like flying around and pollinating flowers. But this is only half of the story, as most of the 20,000 species of bees found around the world nest belowground, and spend the majority of their lives in darkness. What are they... Read More →
Volunteers are invited to participate in a Community Science project to collect and audit litter! The audit results in useful data and is reported into Keep Texas Beautiful's TxLitter Database! Litter will be collected for about 30 minutes around the grounds of the shopping center. The audit will take one to one-and-a-half hours. The Woodlands... Read More →
