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🏠 Our New Storage Facility

By: Bill Hopkins We now have a solution to our storage needs. Since our beginning our members have had to store our chapter supplies and equipment in their garages and… Read More →

June 7, 2025

Book ReviewMonthly NewsletterNative PlantsTrees

📖 Book Review: Lab Girl

by Bill Hopkins People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I chose science because science gave me what I needed–a home as defined in the most literal sense:… Read More →

May 22, 2025

Monthly NewsletterNative PlantsNaturenews

🌱 Three Steps to a Native Plant Garden

Have you been hesitating to start a native plant garden because you don’t know which plants to use? Then this post is for you.  In just three easy steps you… Read More →

March 31, 2025

book jacket for The Hidden Lives of Owls.
BirdsBook ReviewMonthly Newsletter

📖 Book Report: The Hidden Lives of Owls

By: Bill Hopkins “For more than sixty-seven million years, owls have roamed the earth, flying, hunting, and raising their families in the dark.” Leigh Calvez is a writer and naturalist… Read More →

February 3, 2025

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📖 Book Report: Finding the Mother Tree

By now, most of us have heard of the controversial theory that trees communicate with each other and even help each other through an extensive underground network of fungi, connecting… Read More →

December 20, 2023

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🔀 Advanced Training Program SWAP with Big Country Chapter

Article by: Marsha Stephens The Backstory June and July of 2023 marked a new activity for our chapter and a special adventure for the three of us who undertook our… Read More →

September 12, 2023

AnimalsMonthly NewsletterNative PlantsNatureSeeds

🍳 Visit a piece of the Cast Iron Forest

By: Peggy Tolboom A visit to Donna and Steve Clark, class of 2019, is a visit to a small piece of the Cast Iron Forest.  Invitations are extended to TXMN… Read More →

September 12, 2023

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🦝 Cool Facts on a Hot Day

By Linda Wood On a hot July afternoon, a group of children and adults gathered in the cool Stephenville Library basement to learn cool facts about raccoons. We began with… Read More →

September 12, 2023

Book ReviewMonthly NewsletterNatureTrees

📖 The Overstory, a novel by Richard Powers: Book Review by Bill Hopkins

Richard Powers was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Overstory. I am just now getting around to reading it. Neelay, a character in the novel who is… Read More →

September 12, 2023

BirdsMonthly NewsletterNature

🐦 Building Bluebird Boxes and Building Friendships

By: Peggy Tolboom One of my favorite parts of being a TXMN is making new friends and sharing experiences together. I’ve known Judy and Paul Warner mostly from church and… Read More →

September 12, 2023

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