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TEXAS MASTER NATURALIST INITIAL CERTIFICATION

Requires completion of the following by December 31 2021:

  1. Attendance at all required training classes
  2. Participation in three field trips
  3. Eight hours of approved Advanced Training (AT)
  4. Forty hours of approved volunteer service time

You have committed to attend all training classes and three field trips during the training. However, sometimes unplanned interruptions occur.

MAKE-UP EQUIVALENTS FOR MISSED CLASS OR FIELD TRIP

If you must miss a class or field trip, you can make it up by following the instructions below:

  1. Keep a record of the date, class topic and speaker of a missed class and/or the name and date of the field trip.
  2. As soon as you know you will miss a class or field trip, notify the Class Director via email or text message.
  3. Contact your mentor to advise her/him. Seek help locating a ‘make-up’ equivalent.
  4. Research immediately what is available as ‘make-up’ equivalents through the chapter’s Advanced Training calendar, other field trips in your curriculum schedule or offerings at nearby Texas Master Naturalist Chapters.
  5. Consult with the Class Director for additional help locating a ‘make-up’ equivalent.
  6. Get pre-approval from your Class Director to make sure the ‘make-up’ equivalent is an acceptable substitute for the event you missed.
  7. Attend a ‘make-up’ equivalent Texas Master Naturalist class, Advanced Training, or optional field trip in your curriculum schedule.
  8. Complete the on-line “Missed Class Make-Up Form,” available here.
  9. The complete “Missed Class Make-Up Form” will be submitted to the Class Director and the chapter’s Membership Director. The information will be added to your membership record.
  10. Keep a personal record of completed ‘make-up equivalents.’ This is your record of any double-checking that might need to occur.

NOTE: if you use an Advanced Training to make up a missed class, it does not count toward the required eight hours of annual Advance Training. No double counting!

REMEMBER!!! You have until December 31, 2021 to complete the training curriculum ‘make-up equivalents’ to meet this Initial Certification criteria.

Here is how others have completed the training:

  1. Attend another Master Naturalist chapter equivalent class or field trip. Reservation and pre-approval by that chapter are required. List of area Texas Master Naturalist chapters are listed in this document.
  2. Complete an Advanced Training (AT) session on a pre-approved topic.
  3. Wait for next year’s chapter training course and attend class/field trip you need to make-up.

NEARBY MASTER NATURALIST CHAPTERS

To locate the specific chapter’s website and training schedule go to https://txmn.org and search for the city or chapter name.

Nearby Texas Master Naturalist Chapters
To locate a chapter’s website click a nearby county on the map or visit https://txmn.tamu.edu/, Find Your Chapter, then click any county to be taken to the chapter’s website.

  • Alamo Area Chapter – Bexar County/San Antonio
  • Balcones Canyonlands Chapter – Western and northern Travis County
  • Capital Area Chapter – Austin and surrounding communities
  • Hays County Chapter – San Marcos, Wimberly, Dripping Springs
  • Highland Lakes Chapter – Blanco, Llano, Burnet Counties
  • Lindheimer Chapter – Comal County/New Braunfels
Anderson Andrews Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bee Bell Bexar Blanco Borden Bosque Bowie Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Caldwell Calhoun Callahan Cameron Camp Carson Cass Castro Chambers Cherokee Childress Clay Cochran Coke Coleman Collin Collingsworth Colorado Comal Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crockett Crosby Culberson Dallam Dallas Dawson Deaf Smith Delta Denton DeWitt Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland Ector Edwards Ellis El Paso Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Foard FortBend Franklin Freestone Frio Gaines Galveston Garza Gillespie Glasscock Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Hardeman Hardin Harris Harrison Hartley Haskell Hays Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo Hill Hockley Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hudspeth Hunt Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jim Hogg JimWells Johnson Jones Karnes Kaufman Kendall Kenedy Kent Kerr Kimble King Kinney Kleberg Knox Lamar Lamb Lampasas La Salle Lavaca Lee Leon Liberty Limestone Lipscomb LiveOak Llano Loving Lubbock Lynn McCulloch McLennan McMullen Madison Marion Martin Mason Matagorda Maverick Medina Menard Midland Milam Mills Mitchell Montague Montgomery Moore Morris Motley Nacogdoches Navarro Newton Nolan Nueces Ochiltree Oldham Orange Palo Pinto Panola Parker Parmer Pecos Polk Potter Presidio Rains Randall Reagan Real RedRiver Reeves Refugio Roberts Robertson Rockwall Runnels Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto San Patricio San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shackelford Shelby Sherman Smith Somervell Starr Stephens Sterling Stonewall Sutton Swisher Tarrant Taylor Terrell Terry Throckmorton Titus TomGreen Travis Trinity Tyler Upshur Upton Uvalde Val Verde VanZandt Victoria Walker Waller Ward Washington Webb Wharton Wheeler Wichita Wilbarger Willacy Williamson Wilson Winkler Wise Wood Yoakum Young Zapata Zavala

Makeup Form for Missed Class or Field Trip

Submit this form to confirm attendance at an approved Make-up Equivalent. The current New Class Director must APPROVE the makeup class or fieldtrip BEFORE attendance. • Use a separate form for each missed class or field trip. • This information will be added to your membership file.
  • Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
  • Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
  • example: 1.25 hours
  • Nature Center, Group, Department, or other organization.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.