Upcoming Events
Mockingbird Nature Park
Mayor’s Winter Walk – Saturday, February 21 at 10am
Wildflower Walk – 3rd Saturday of the Month at 9am
March 21, April 18, May 16, June 20, September 19, October 17
Kachina Prairie
Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival – Guided Wildflower Walks
Saturday, April 18 at 10am, Noon, 2pm, and 4pm
Sunday, April 19 at 1pm and 3pm
Monthly Meetings and Programs
6:00 PM – Chapter Business Meeting
7:00 PM – Program
Location: First United Methodist Church; 505 W. Marvin Ave., Waxahachie.
Family Life Center – Gathering Room
Or join us online using the link below
→ Google Meet ←
February 23, 2026
Fairs, Festivals, and Farmers Markets: Sharing Nature appreciation with the general public
Nancy Angell
Want to reach the general public with your conservation message? Check out ” Fairs, Festivals and Farmers Markets” , a presentation derived from the 2022 TMN Project Fair winning presentation titled “Beyond the Choir”! It outlines the journey the Sabine-Neches Chapter took to develop engaging booth activities that teach conservation at non-ecocentric events. Topics include: what makes an attractive booth display, specific types of engaging activities and the costs involved, recruiting chapter members and making connections with community event leaders. Let’s deliver our important conservation message to mainstream America!
Nancy Angell has always been a “nature nut” so TMN has been a perfect fit for her retirement years. She is the Outreach Coordinator for the Sabine-Neches Chapter; the goal is to share nature appreciation with folks in Southeast Texas. Nancy enjoys leading nature hikes in the Big Thicket National Preserve, teaching nature classes to children and restoring her 10-acre farm to native species habitat. Texan by Nature recognized her property “Angell Acres” as a Texas Conservation Star in October, 2025.
March 23, 2026
Going Bats!
Sue Frary
This will be a discussion of bats in general – biology, myths, and legends. And specifically, we will discuss what we have learned about the bats living among us in Ellis and Navarro counties.
Sue is an Indian Trail Chapter Texas Master Naturalist, Class of 2016. She is currently the Chapter Coordinator for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Nature Trackers Acoustic Bat Monitoring Project, a 5-year effort now in it’s third year to collect state-wide data on the local presence of bats for submission to the USGS North American Bat Monitoring Project (NABat). Sue lives in Waxahachie, is an occasional birder, and also serves as an armchair botanist for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. She holds a BA from Bennington College and a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Vermont.
