As Texas becomes more urban, the natural spaces are shrinking. Yet they are still all around us, from the wilds of rural areas to the parks, waterways, and even the birds, squirrels, and wildflowers in your own backyard. The Texas Master Naturalist volunteer program seeks to help people increase their knowledge and awareness of our wild and even not-sowild environments.
Sponsored by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, the Texas Master Naturalist program seeks to develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide education, outreach, and service dedicated to the beneficial management and conservation of natural resources and natural areas within their regional communities.
Beginning Saturday, August 27, the Red River Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists will offer an 11-week schedule of combined classroom and outdoor activities designed to enrich and expand knowledge of our Northeast Texas ecoregion. Topics to be covered will include waterways and wetlands, forests, prairies, geology and archaeology, indigenous wildlife and native plants, weather and climate, land stewardship, and citizen science. Participants don’t merely sit in a classroom listening to lectures, they also get out into the wild areas nearby for hands-on learning about local flora and fauna.
