Advanced Training

Get ready for our 22nd Texas Master Naturalist Program Annual Meeting, an event to gather, learn and celebrate another year of the Texas Master Naturalist Program. We’re preparing this year’s meeting as a HYBRID Event – both online and in-person at our Marriott contract hotel in Irving, Texas. The event will be held the weekend... Read More →

Cara Burch will give us a brief history of Attwater's Prairie Chicken and discuss Fossil Rim Wildlife Center's captive breeding and release program. Devin Erxleben will speak on “Texas Horned Lizard Restoration Efforts and Research on TPWD Lands”. Discussing TPWD research efforts of translocating wild-caught adult Texas horned lizards (THL) to the Muse WMA and... Read More →

Advanced Training Opportunity - Wild Trainings with TPWD. Here is the website link for the opportunity: Texas Project WILD Suite — Texas Parks & Wildlife Department For more information contact  Colton Claborn

Feb. 16 9 AM, at the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension & Research Center

Forest Bathing, should I bring a towel?  No, Forest Bathing is the translation from Japanese Shinrin-yoku.  Forest therapy could be another way of describing the many health benefits of spending time in the woods.   Maybe you already know that when you spend time outside in nature, you feel better. Dr. Qing Li, one of the... Read More →

Texas Project WILD is available solely through TPWD workshops.  Attendance for the full training is required to get the book, regardless of fee payment. Any participating  TxMN Chapter (or cluster of nearby chapters) will designate a coordinator to receive and distribute the Project WILD books When a chapter has a minimum of 5 committed participants,... Read More →

Monarch conservation in North America; a discussion of the monarch life cycle, decline since the 1990s, contributions to decline, and practices for conservation and management Dr. Adam Mitchell is an Assistant Professor of Entomology in the Department of Wildlife and Natural Resources at Tarleton State University. In the past, Dr. Mitchell conducted research on the... Read More →

MEGHAN PEOPLES WILL LEAD OUR CHAPTER MEMBERS ON A  WILDFLOWER WALK AT LANCE TRINQUE’S SATURDAY MAY 14TH FROM 9 TO 11 A.M. WEAR YOUR COMFY WALKING SHOES. BRING  WATER, SNACKS, CAMERA, AND YOUR LOVE OF NATURE AS WE  SHARE TIME AND LEARN FROM EACH OTHER. 2010 PR 1562 (5 MILES NORTH OF TOWN OFF 281,... Read More →

An overview of mosquito and house fly biology and ecology and how best to manage these pests throughout the year. Sonja L. Swiger, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Texas A&M University Department of Entomology and an Extension specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Her research and teaching interests lie in the field of... Read More →

WE WILL MEET AT THE PARKING FOR HIGH POINT WHICH IS AT THE END OF FM 1496. THE COORDINATES ARE 31.999849, -98.475447. High Point is easy hiking, mostly sand and very little topography. Kyle Watter, CIV USARMY CESWF (USA), will lead the hike. Kyle will explain the history of the area, and some of the species we will encounter... Read More →

THE MOTHING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IT LATER. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MORNING HIKE AT LAKE PROCTOR IS STILL GOING ON. FOR QUESTIONS CONTACT DAYNA INBODY   Dr. Russell Pfau, Professor at Tarleton State University, and other area Moth-ers will set up at Lance Trinques’s property Saturday June 4th from 9pm... Read More →