What kinds of activities constitute Lost Pines Master Naturalist volunteer service opportunities? The following chart, which contains examples and ratings of actual volunteer service project requests, is a good guide for determining whether your activity qualifies.
| Unacceptable | Acceptable | Preferable |
| Being “on call” as a wildlife rescuer for a non-partner organization | Actually performing a wildlife rescue event for a partnering organization of the local chapter | |
| Planting exotic plants at a local school | Planting native plants or a wildscape at a local school | Leading 5th graders and staff in implementing a native plant garden/wildscape at a local school |
| Monarch monitoring in Colorado | Monarch monitoring in Texas | Monarch monitoring within your local chapter’s area |
| Cleaning the elephant cage at a zoo | Caring for the prairie chicken area at a local zoo that is in partnership with the local chapter | Leading interpretive programs about prairie chickens at a local zoo that is in partnership with the local chapter |
| Maintenance at a private native plant nursery | Maintenance of a demonstration garden at a park/nature center or being part of a native plant propagation team for the city’s botanical garden | Holding a workshop on how to install and maintain a wildscape or other similar type of native habitat |
| Conducting wildlife management activities on your own or a neighbor’s land | Conducting wildlife management practices/activities on public land | Teaching/assisting landowners to develop their own wildlife management plans that the landowner would carry out |
| A teacher receiving service credit for natural resource education activities he/she conducts it their classroom | A teacher receiving service credit for natural resource education activities that he/she conducts as an unpaid after school environmental club leader | A teacher/volunteer who organizes and conducts a natural resource education workshop for other Master Naturalists or the general public |
| Stream clean-up by a volunteer who works for a local watershed protection program | Stream clean-up by volunteers who do not work for a local watershed protection program | Master Naturalist volunteers conducting stream or watershed restoration practices. Or Master Naturalist volunteers coordinating a stream clean-up for the local community to participate in. |
| Receiving special credit for time spend serving as a board or committee member for another natural resource/environmental organization NOT in partnership with your local Texas Master Naturalist chapter | Receiving up to a set limit of service credit (e.g., 10 hours per year as set by your local chapter) for serving as a board or committee member for another natural resource/environmental organization that is ALSO a partner with your local chapter, providing the chapter with resources such as meeting space at little or no cost | Receiving credit for time spent serving as a board or committee member for a natural resource/environmental organization in partnership with your local chapter and because the organization invited you to serve and represent your local Master Naturalist chapter in this capacity |
| Conducting endangered species surveys; developing nature trails or habitat brush piles at a local park/nature center which is in partnership with your local chapter | Maintaining a nature classroom/training area for that same partner who also allows the chapter to keep an office and/or hold chapter meetings in this same space |