Our mission is to develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide EDUCATION, OUTREACH, and SERVICE dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas within their communities for the State of Texas.
WE ARE ALL ABOUT VOLUNTEER SERVICE
Chapter members each contribute 40 hours of volunteer service annually to retain certification in the Texas Master Naturalist program. Our members make a difference in more than 115 chapter-approved volunteer projects across our ten-county service area and contribute thousands of hours each year towards the preservation of our Hill Country environment. For approved projects, please click here.
What is a Texas Master Naturalist?
Check out this three minute video created by the Texas Master Naturalist – Lost Pines Chapter.
Do you love nature? Do you want to make a difference? Click on the link below to go to our form. Fill in the form and be sure to tell us about yourself and what you are passionate about. We’ll be in touch. Click here.
The Hill County Chapter serves Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Menard, Real, and San Saba Counties. Our ten-county service region covers 10,651.08 square miles.
The Texas Hill Country is located on the eastern portion of the Edwards Plateau, and is bound by the Balcones Escarpment on the east and the Llano Uplift to the west and north. The “Texas Hill Country” is not a precise geographic area but a vernacular term that describes an area of central Texas, characterized by karst topography with clear rivers, dense vegetation, and pure air.
MONTHLY CHAPTER MEETING, WITH SOCIAL TIME
The Texas Master Naturalist, Hill Country Chapter meets monthly in person and online via Zoom. Our next Chapter Meeting and Advanced Training session is open to the public and will be held on Monday, Jun 23, 6:30p-8:00p.
The meeting is at
GUADALUPE BASIN NATURAL RESOURCES CENTER (GBNRC) Building
125 Lehmann Drive, Suite 100
Kerrville, Texas
Pre-registration is required to attend the chapter meeting session via Zoom.
Click the link, shown below, to register.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84850885770
Doors open at 6 pm for socializing. A short business meeting will begin at 6:30p and the Advanced Training session is from 7:00 to 8:00p. There is no cost to attend. All are welcome.
Who Controls the Water?
Have you ever wondered who controls how much water you can pull from a creek or a river or even from your own well? Who sets water restrictions during times of drought? Why do cities enforce drought restrictions while counties do not seem to do so? Is anyone planning for the future? If you would like to know, please join us in-person at the Guadalupe Basin Natural Resources Center (GBNRC) auditorium or on Zoom, Monday, June 23, 2025. Social time starts at 6:00p, the Chapter meeting at 6:30p, and at 7:00p, Deb Youngblood will share the often-surprising story of water rights in Texas, and the local, regional, and state agencies that have a say in all this, plus how and to whom do we go to make our concerns known.
Speaker: Deb Youngblood is a Texas Master Naturalist (Hill Country Chapter Class of 2019), and a certified Texas Water Specialist (TWS). She loves water, riparian areas, and Hill Country streams, and you can often find her volunteering to help keep this critical resource and the areas that water impacts, in a natural state.