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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September 9-11th is Girl Scouts Love Our State Parks. Plans for this weekend include: A Friday night hike, a day of activities on Saturday, and Sunday morning fishing with a ranger. Volunteers are needed to help organizing and running activities each day. VMS code: DO: Huntsville State Park (Girl Scout weekend activities)
Attending one of the virtual training classes on either August 24th or 25th and then the August 28th in-person session is required to become a Houston Botanic Garden docent. Please RSVP to [email protected]. VMS code: AT: Specific project (Houston Botanic Garden docent training)
Bayou Land Conservancy and Houston Audubon will resume the weekly (Mondays) bird walks/surveys at Creekside Park West beginning Monday, Sept 5 (Labor Day). The walks 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... Read More →
Attending one of the virtual training classes on either August 24th or 25th and then the August 28th in-person session is required to become a Houston Botanic Garden docent. Please RSVP to [email protected]. VMS code: AT: Specific project (Houston Botanic Garden docent training)
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
Attending one of the virtual training classes on either August 24th or 25th and then the August 28th in-person session is required to become a Houston Botanic Garden docent. Please RSVP to [email protected]. VMS code: AT: Specific project (Houston Botanic Garden docent training)
Hot on the Trail! (Thursdays at 7pm, Ongoing): Ready to take your birding to the next level? Each week we'll surprise you with virtual field trips to current birding hotspots, sharing our videos of species we've encountered there – but you’ll have to identify them to discover what we saw! In this fun workshop, you'll practice... Read More →
Date: Every Wednesday (Except Sept. 1) Time: 8:30-11:30 AM Description: Every day is Earth Day at Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center! Volunteers are invited to join staff and assist with a variety of conservation projects such as maintaining the pollinator gardens, plant propagation, and habitat restoration. VMS code : RM :JJones Park and... Read More →
Date: Every Wednesday (Except Sept. 1) Time: 8:30-11:30 AM Description: Do you love gardening or working outdoors with tools? Then we need you to join the Homestead Team and help rejuvenate the Redbud Hill Homestead at Jesse Jones Park. Some activities include debarking the logs, sharpening the woodshop tools, maintaining the herb and vegetable gardens,... Read More →
The Woodlands Watershed Project Committee meets on the first Wednesday of each month, starting at 3:30 pm. The Committee reviews, plans and actions water-related education and volunteer opportunities in our community. A brief report and informative update is published in The Heartwood Herald following each Committee meeting. Anyone with an interest in our local waters... Read More →
Attending one of the virtual training classes on either August 24th or 25th and then the August 28th in-person session is required to become a Houston Botanic Garden docent. Please RSVP to [email protected]. VMS code: AT: Specific project (Houston Botanic Garden docent training)
Over the past four decades, HARC has provided leadership and science-backed research on issues related to water, air, energy, and resilience. Join us as we celebrate our past and prepare for the next 40 years – creating a future that is sustainable, equitable, and thriving. The highlight of the evening will be a keynote presentation by Dr. Katharine... Read More →
Volunteers are needed each Thursday to help remove invasives and maintain trails. Contact Lauren Hollenbeck, Park Naturalist, at [email protected] to volunteer. For trail maintenance, use VMS code: NPA: Nature/Public Access for other organizations (Lake Houston Wilderness Park) For removing invasives, use VMS code: RM: Other locations (Lake Houston Wilderness Park)
Attending one of the virtual training classes on either August 24th or 25th and then the August 28th in-person session is required to become a Houston Botanic Garden docent. Please RSVP to [email protected]. VMS code: AT: Specific project (Houston Botanic Garden docent training)
The Woodlands Township Environmental Services Department in partnership with Houston-Galveston Area Council will offer a training for volunteers to become certified as Texas Stream Team Water Quality Monitors. The class is from 9am to 4pm, Friday, September 9, at the Bear Branch Recreation Center Live Oak Room, 5310 Research Forest Drive. More information Class size is... Read More →
Attending one of the virtual training classes on either August 24th or 25th and then the August 28th in-person session is required to become a Houston Botanic Garden docent. Please RSVP to [email protected]. VMS code: AT: Specific project (Houston Botanic Garden docent training)
Sponsored by Building For Bats "Help Save Our Bat Warehouse" in Huntsville Texas, this event will feature Dr. Gary McCracken. Location: 710 University Ave., Huntsville Contact: (936) 355-5468 or [email protected] Dr. McCracken will describe the natural history and behavior of Brazilian free-tailed bats within large colonies of these bats as in the Huntsville cotton warehouse.... Read More →
Required reading: Unit 24 Citizen Science 8:00 AM Leave No Trace Andre Houser 9:30 AM Dark Sky Initiative Lisa Tuck 10:30 AM Mycology, Nature Journaling Teri MacArthur VMS code: Initial training
Timber Lane Community Center will host Bug-a-palooza on Saturday, September 10. Although some of the bug stations are of exotic bugs, most stations will be about native bugs and butterflies. It will be a fun way for TMN to volunteer indoors on a Saturday morning. TMS volunteers will be assigned a native bugs station. Watch... Read More →
Heartwood member Susan Beckemeier is once again taking the lead on the Heartwood booth and guided nature walks along one of the trails. Trail guide volunteers are needed. Signs will be placed in front of stopping places where there are significant plants to talk about, and there will be a script with corresponding numbers so that... Read More →
Attending one of the virtual training classes on either August 24th or 25th and then the August 28th in-person session is required to become a Houston Botanic Garden docent. Please RSVP to [email protected]. VMS code: AT: Specific project (Houston Botanic Garden docent training)