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Book ReviewMonthly NewsletterNative PlantsTrees

πŸ“– 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… Read More →

May 22, 2025

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πŸͺ© 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 →

December 20, 2023

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πŸ“– 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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πŸ“– 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

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