On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, United States, and Canada. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the… Read More →
Nature
📘 2024 Training Class
Our Spring 2024 Training Class kicked off in January and will conclude in April. The training class has learned from speakers about geology, insects, famous master naturalists, law and ethics,… Read More →
🦅 The 124th Audubon Christmas Bird Count
By: Dayna Inbody December 16, 2023 The Prairie Oaks Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program completed its sixth year contributing to the Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This is… Read More →
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🪩 Reflections on the 2023 Annual Meeting
Below are contributions from several of our chapter members about their experience at the Texas Master Naturalist Annual Meeting held in McAllen October 12 – 15, 2023. To A State… Read More →
📖 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 →
☀️ Photographing a Solar Eclipse
By: Lynn Wood After watching the solar eclipse this past October, you may now be interested in photographing the upcoming eclipse in April. The good news is that, with one… Read More →
🗒️ Notes from the President: Fall 2023
By: Katie Moses One day this summer, I walked out onto my front porch and spotted a small snake hiding behind my cat’s water dish. My first reaction was excitement… Read More →
🍳 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 →
🦝 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 →
📖 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 →