Chapter Meeting with Guest Speaker

All members, guests, and visitors are invited to the chapter’s monthly meetings. Each meeting starts with a potluck (dinner on us for guests and visitors), followed by a speaker and the business meeting. Each meeting location rotates among the three chapter counties, so check the calendar for individual meeting locations. We will try to specify meeting locations at least a week or two before each meeting. Meetings are open to the public. Please join us!

6:00    Potluck

6:30    Speaker: Lee Davis, Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), Monarchs: The 5th Generation.

A graduate of Texas Tech University (BS in Wildlife Management) and Louisiana State University (MS in Wildlife Science), Lee currently is a WildlifeBiologist/Wetland Specialist at the NRCS Ft. Worth National Technology Support Center. He serves as the technical lead for the NRCS Monarch Butterfly Working Lands for Wildlife project.

Lee started his professional career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service (SCS) in Alexandria, LA. Note: SCS name was changed in 1994 to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Lee has worked for the USDA SCS/NRCS for 41 years in various positions in Louisiana, Texas, and Washington D.C., with experiences designing commercial catfish ponds, crawfish ponds, and developing marsh management plans in coastal Louisiana.  He delineated over 200,000 acres of wetlands subject to the USDA wetland conservation compliance provisions (Swampbuster) and rolled out the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), first offered to TX landowners Texas in 1995.

7:30    Business meeting

Members’ hours reporting: Volunteer Opportunity: VMS Category: Administrative Work (specify): TMN Admin Report Hours, Chapter Meeting Advanced Training Opportunity, VMS Category: AT: Chapter Meeting: TMN AT Report Hours (describe your training)