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TEXAS Events Volunteer Opportunities Education & Training Alamo Area Chapter Volume 14, Issue 3 March, 2010 Officers By the 2010 AAMN Board SPECIAL ELECTION MEETING IN APRIL A special AAMN general election meet- ing is scheduled for 6:30 PM on April 14, 2010 at the Botanical Gar- den Administration Building. This meet- ing is prior to the monthly program session. There are two agenda items for this meeting. A. Fill the position of the AAMN Board President B. Accept or reject the proposed TMN State Bylaws ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OF AAMN The AAMN Board of Directors and the state sponsors have determined that since the position of AAMN Board President is one of great importance, the general member- ship should be involved in the selection. At the same time, the Board agreed that any va- cancies occurring as a result of this election would be filled according to the current 1998 Bylaws: Article V-Sec. 2 –“‘A vacancy occur- ring on the Board of Directors shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining directors for the remaining unexpired term.” AAMN members interested in running for AAMN Board President are invited to submit their name and a short statement on their qual- ifications for the position. Names are to be submitted to the AAMN Newsletter Editor, Joann Smith by March 23, 2010. An announcement of candidates and their statements will be sent to all members 15 days before the election and will be published in the April 1, newsletter. Printed ballots will be provided at the April 14th meeting. Nominations from the floor will not be accepted. BYLAWS To review the proposed Bylaws as well as the minutes of monthly meetings, refer to the new AAMN Documents Folder online. Once adopted, these Bylaws will go into effect on Thursday, December 9, 2010. New and ex- isting TMN chapters are encouraged to adopt these state proposed Bylaws, patterned after the original AAMN set of Bylaws. A copy of these Bylaws will also be sent to all the AAMN members 15 days before the special election meeting for final previewing. If you choose to review the state Bylaws Template, go to the TAMU link, then click on the “Read Me First” link found on the left of the page. At this link you will also find the current versions of the TMN Roadmap for Adoption of New Bylaws and Chapter Operating Hand- book for EXISTING Chapters; the TMN Pro- gram Chapter Management Guidelines; the TMN Standards of Conduct and the TMN Code of Ethics which have guided the board throughout this process. Board Meeting March 10 5:15 p.m. All members are welcome to attend. Guest Speaker 7:00 p.m. March 10 Meeting Special Guest C heryl Hamilton, Lonnie Shockley and Judith Shockley are Master Natu- ralists and volunteer citizen scientists with the Texas Invasive Plant and Pest Council. They will present information describing the most chal- lenging invasive plants found in the City of San Antonio Natural Areas and Bex- ar County and will share strategies they use for identification and eradication. is program is approved for advanced training hours.
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Alamo Area Texas Master Naturalist News
Transcript of Vol. 14, No. 3
T E X A S Events
Volunteer Opportunities
Education & TrainingAlamo Area Chapter
Volume 14, Issue 3 March, 2010
President Vacant
Acting President/Vice-President
TreasurerPete Cowger
SecretaryJamie Daily
Members-at-LargeLonnie Shockley
[email protected] Wolcott
[email protected] Yarnold
Immediate Past PresidentAnton Hajek
Officers
Message froM the BoardBy the 2010 AAMN Board
SPECIAL ELECTION MEETING IN APRIL
A special AAMN general election meet-ing is scheduled for 6:30 PM on April 14, 2010 at the Botanical Gar-
den Administration Building. This meet-ing is prior to the monthly program session. There are two agenda items for this meeting.
A. Fill the position of the AAMN Board PresidentB. Accept or reject the proposed TMN State Bylaws
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OF AAMNThe AAMN Board of Directors and the
state sponsors have determined that since the position of AAMN Board President is one of great importance, the general member-ship should be involved in the selection. At the same time, the Board agreed that any va-cancies occurring as a result of this election would be filled according to the current 1998 Bylaws: Article V-Sec. 2 –“‘A vacancy occur-ring on the Board of Directors shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining directors for the remaining unexpired term.”
AAMN members interested in running for AAMN Board President are invited to submit their name and a short statement on their qual-ifications for the position.
Names are to be submitted to the AAMN Newsletter Editor, Joann Smith by March 23, 2010. An announcement of candidates and
their statements will be sent to all members 15 days before the election and will be published in the April 1, newsletter.
Printed ballots will be provided at the April 14th meeting. Nominations from the floor will not be accepted.
BYLAWSTo review the proposed Bylaws as well as
the minutes of monthly meetings, refer to the new AAMN Documents Folder online. Once adopted, these Bylaws will go into effect on Thursday, December 9, 2010. New and ex-isting TMN chapters are encouraged to adopt these state proposed Bylaws, patterned after the original AAMN set of Bylaws.
A copy of these Bylaws will also be sent to all the AAMN members 15 days before the special election meeting for final previewing.
If you choose to review the state Bylaws Template, go to the TAMU link, then click on the “Read Me First” link found on the left of the page.
At this link you will also find the current versions of the TMN Roadmap for Adoption of New Bylaws and Chapter Operating Hand-book for EXISTING Chapters; the TMN Pro-gram Chapter Management Guidelines; the TMN Standards of Conduct and the TMN Code of Ethics which have guided the board throughout this process.
Board Meeting
March 10
5:15 p.m.
All members are welcome to attend.
Guest Speaker
7:00 p.m.
March 10 Meeting Special Guest
Cheryl Hamilton, Lonnie Shockley and Judith Shockley are Master Natu-ralists and volunteer citizen scientists with the Texas Invasive Plant and Pest Council. They will present information describing the most chal-
lenging invasive plants found in the City of San Antonio Natural Areas and Bex-ar County and will share strategies they use for identification and eradication.
This program is approved for advanced training hours.
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Activate 2010! Please contact Wilt Shaw at [email protected] or Ling Liu [email protected] to activate your 2010 Googledocs account if you have not done so.
Activities InformationPam Ball
Community OutreachPam Yarnold
Education / Training CommitteePam Ball
Education OutreachCindy Sims
HistorianVacant
HospitalityNancy Brown
Hours SubmissionWilt Shaw
[email protected] Yin Liu
NewsletterEditor
Joann [email protected]
Jamie DailyDesigner
Jessica Manley
MembershipJohn Wolcott
Media & TechnologyJessica Manley210-454-8019
Web SiteSam Glass
Service to the organization is always approved for volunteer hours.
cOmmitteees
Visit our web site atwww.alamomasternaturalist.org
News from the Board Committees
Projects to be reviewed for approval as a Master Naturalist activity must be submitted on the Submission for Activity Approval form. Forms can be obtained by contacting me, Pamela Ball, [email protected], or from the AAMN website at www.alamomasternaturalist.org.
PLEASE REPORT YOUR HOURS !!Reporting hours is easy with the new EXCEL spreadsheet that was developed for e-mail
submissions or for mailing in your hours. It is available online at www.alamomasternaturalist.org.
Where to report your hours:Last names A-M: Last names N-Z:Wilt Shaw Ling Yin Liu104 Dove Meadow 4946 Dare LaneBoerne, TX 78006-4222 San Antonio, TX 78217E-mail : [email protected] Phone: 210-207-0021 E-mail: [email protected]
Lost Your Name Tag?Order your replacement tag by March 25th. Contact Pamela Ball at [email protected] fee is $7
DO YOU WANT YOUR PIN AWARDS? DID YOUR HOURS GET LOST???
A new committee of Alamo Area Master Naturalists is taking action in an attempt to provide members with award pins for hours earned. Some of our old records have been lost, especially regarding the 2002-2006 time frame. If you have records of hours earned during those years, we hope to hear from you so that we can complete our records.
John Wolcott [email protected] and Roy Yarnold [email protected] have not only volunteered to assist you with this effort but will also serve as the clearing-house for information regarding reported hours, hours that have vanished and those that have gone unreported.
As most of you know, each year we award ‘one of a kind’ certification pins for those who achieve 8 hours of advanced training and 40 hours of volunteer service. This year that pin is a wood duck.
Additionally, throughout the year, the milestone dragonfly pins are also awarded for 250 hours, 500 hours, and 1,000, 2,500 and 5,000 hours of volunteer service.
We know there are members who have reached these milestones, but because of lost records we do not have a true total of hours performed. If you have records, by year, of your volunteer hours, and if you feel that you have earned a milestone award pin which you have not received, please contact Roy Yarnold or John Wolcott. Perhaps you will be seeing your name in print in this newsletter in the next few months. Let’s try to break the records set in 2008 for hours reported and number of members reaching recertification!
2010 Re-Certification Pin Announced!
The 2010 Re-certi-fication pin is the Wood Duck. The
recertification pin will be available for order in the first quarter of the New Year. The pin cer-tifies that a Master Naturalist volunteer has reached their annually required 40 hours of service and 8 hours of advanced training for the current calendar year. All service and advanced training has to be completed IN the year the pin is available. Once the calendar year is done the annual re-certifi-cation pin for that year retires. The 2009 re-certification pin was the salamander.
AAMN is always in need of talented volunteers to support its mission. If you have an interest in helping any one of the above committees, please contact the specific committee chair you are interested in serving.
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INVASIVE PLANT ERADICATION AT RANCHO DIANA
Master Naturalists and members of the San Antonio Invaders Satellite in-vite you to join us in our efforts to eradicate invasive plants at Rancho Diana every Tuesday in February. We are continuing our eradication of
Chinaberry, Chinese Photinia, Chinese Pistachio, Ligustrum, Pyracantha, and Nan-dina on the property. To date, we have identified and eradicated over 5,000 specimens.
Tuesdays, March 2, 9, 23 & 30Volunteers meet outside the gate at Rancho Diana at 7:30 A.M. and conclude at 9:30 or 10:00 A.M. If you are interested, contact Cheryl Hamilton at [email protected] or 210-
342-9721. It is important to e-mail or call by no later than 9:00 P.M. the night before if you will be joining us, as we enter Rancho Diana as a group.
Approved for advanced training/volunteer hours
Class 17Julie Fisher
Class 18Prem Nored
Class 19 Cal Eichler
210- 828-0833
Class 20 Suzanne Benavides
& Palani Whiting
Class 21Nancy Brown
[email protected]& Wendy Thornton
Class 22 Linda Painter Darst
[email protected]& Jamie Daily
Class 23 Steve Guerrant & Gary Trede
Class 24 John Wolcott
[email protected]& Susan Hunnicutt
Class 25 Ron Tullius
210-739-2566 [email protected]
& Ivan [email protected]
Class 26Coming soon
classrepresentatives
MEDINA RIVER NATURAL AREASECOND SATURDAY PROGRAM March 13, 2010 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Solar Cooking for Spring- Monika Salyer-Solar Cooking Interna-tional. Solar cooking is the simplest, safest, most convenient way to cook food without consuming fuels or heating up the kitchen.
Many people choose to solar cook for these reasons. For some in the world it is a life saving skill to have safe drinking water. Learn different meth-ods and types of solar cookers. Make a mini solar cooker to take home.
Medina River Natural Area is located at 15890 Highway 16 South For more information or to RSVP for any event call (210) 624-2575 Suggested donation for each program is $3 per person or $5 per familywww.sanaturalareas.orgApproved for advanced training
BIG Tree Planting
City Forester Michael Nentwich invites his fellow Alamo Area Master Naturalists to help plant 25 large (45 gallon) trees on the schoolyard of Northern Hills Elementary School
on March 6, 2010. This is a large schoolyard with little shade, so the addition of these trees will be most welcome by the community.
MN's will help Michael supervise the work by leading the groups of volunteers who will be putting the trees into the ground. The first half hour (0800 to 0830) will be training in proper planting techniques, so MN volunteers of all experience levels are welcome. The planting holes will be dug before we arrive, so we can focus on getting the trees into the ground with the best preparation for success in their new permanent home. During the rest of the morn-ing, the City Forester will guide the MN's work with the neighborhood volunteers. Please bring your own gloves and kneepads and dress for the weather, as all activity is outside. Approved for volunteer hours
This tree planting project is part of a District 10 Neighborhood Sweep conducted by CoSA Housing and Neighborhood Services, and supported by the Alamo Forest Partnership. The City of San Antonio will bring tools, trees and other supplies.
March 6, 2010 8 a.m. to noon13901 Higgins Rd., at the intersection of Uhr Lane, between Stahl Rd. and Nacogdoches Rd.Please respond to City Forester Michael Nentwich at 210-207-3108 or [email protected]
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FREE
TREES!
City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department Natural Areas
March 2010 Stewardship Activities
If you like the idea of observing and exploring while also improving our natural areas, we hope you will join us on our work days below. If you have any questions, please
contact Jayne Neal at [email protected] 210-372-9124, or Wendy Leonard [email protected] 210-372-9124.
Thursdays, March 4, 11 & 258:30 a.m. - 12:30 p. m. Golden-cheeked warbler habitat resto-
ration at Woodland Hills West. Meet at the Woodland Hills West gate on Heuermann, just southwest of Friedrich Wilderness Park. Please bring work gloves if you have them.
Approved for volunteer hours if assisting with programs.
Spring Bloomer Classes 2010 Down by the River
Medina River Natural AreaMarch 16, 2010 9:30-11:30am andMarch 18, 2010 9:30-11:30am if needed
Explore the world of aquatic insects (macro-invertebrates) in the water. Learn what macro-invertebrates can tell us about pollution in the river. Kid friendly dragonfly craft included.
Approved for volunteer hours if assisting with programs.Classes are $3/child/session-maximum of $6/family/session. Target age is 7-10 years and older and younger children will benefit from the classes. Classes are limited to 15 children. To ensure a spot for your child, pre-registration is required. Call 624-2575 now to register. www.sanaturalareas.org
NPSOT Speakers Line-up
Meetings of the San Antonio chapter of NPSOT are held on the 4th Tuesday of each month and are free and open to the public.
March 23, 2010 – Tom Castaño on using native plants for fiber. [Subject area: Ethnobotany]
Approved for advanced training6:30 pm – Native plant and seed exchange7:00 pm – Meeting and program
Lions Field Adult Center2809 Broadway (at Mulberry & Broadway by Brackenridge Park)
Map at www.tinyurl.com/LionsField-SA
San Antonio River Authority
River Preservation Project March 9-10, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The first hour is training; the re-maining time counts as vol-unteer activities. (You are
not required to stay the entire time.)The training session is on plant identification: natives and ex-otics. Volunteer activities include removal of non-native plant species; removal of native, invasive plant species; incidental debris removal; perhaps some planting.Training and activities will take place on the San Antonio River, just below the Blue Star Arts complex on South Alamo Street.Contact Ron Tullius at (210) 739-2566 or [email protected] for advanced training/volunteer hours
Monarch Monitoring ProjectApril 9 - 10 and September 24-25, 20109 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Friday9 a.m. - noon on SaturdayCibolo Nature Center, Boerne, Tx, Auditorium.Cost: $30 Pre-registration required. Call 830-249-4616
Volunteers for Texas Monarch Watch, Cibo-lo Nature Center, and Texas Master Natu-ralists will present spring and fall Monarch
Monitoring Workshops in collaboration with Mon-arch Larval Monitoring Project, Monarch Watch, and Journey North. The monarch has recently been added to the World Wildlife Fund's Top Ten Most Threatened Species list and the overwintering population this winter is the lowest ever recorded.
Approved for advanced training City Council District 1
Council District 1 Spring Fling 100 free 5-gallon trees (one per household)
Master Naturalist Volunteers are needed to as-sist with a tree giveaway on Saturday, March 20, 2010. As always, I am looking for vol-
unteers to help hand out free trees, assist citizens in selecting the right species for their needs, and pro-vide education on the proper planting/care of trees.
March 20, 2010San Pedro Park
Trees will be delivered at 7 a.m. (handled by Parks & Recreation)… event starts at 10 a.m.
Approved for volunteer hoursPlease contact me if you would like to volunteer.Michael Nentwich, City [email protected] Antonio Parks & Recreation(210) 207-3108
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March Activities @ the Garden
San Antonio Botanical Garden
We are having a WaterSaver Class on Friday, Feb-ruary 19 from 9 - 12 in the Education Build-ing. Siri Lindholm will be teaching the class.
Also there will be a Garden Guide Training class on Wednesdays from 9 - 12 starting on March 3. The class will be for 5 Wednesdays starting March 3 and ending April 7. It will skip the Wednesday of Spring Break (March 17, St. Patrick’s Day).
If you know anyone, especially a Master Gardener or Master Naturalist, who would be interested in these class-es, please invite them and have them contact me to enroll. Classes are free and count for Master Gardener CEUs and Master Naturalist advanced training.
Approved for advanced trainingCindy Sims, Volunteer CoordinatorSan Antonio Botanical Garden555 Funston Place, San Antonio, TX [email protected] 207-3261 phone/210 207-3274 fax
Pre-register for the workshop by going to:http://tws.tamu.eduor call 979.862.8072
The workshop will provide an overview of water quality and watershed management in Texas. It will primarily focus on water quality issues in the Upper Cibolo Creek Watershed as well as efforts by the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the City of Boerne, and area residents to help improve water resources and the health of the surrounding watershed.
The Texas Watershed Steward program is a free, one-day educational workshop designed to help watershed residents improve and protect their water resources by getting involved in local watershed protection and management activities.
March 25, 2010: 8:00am-4pmBoerne Convention and Community Center
820 Adler Road Boerne, TX 78006
TexasWatershed
Stewards
Upper Cibolo Creek Watershed
Upper Cibolo Creek Watershed
Approved for advanced training
After only a few months of inheriting this job from J. W. Pieper, I have a great appreciation for his ef-forts in getting our awards program on track. At
any time, feel free to contact me if I have committed an er-ror relevant to your records. With over 600 members and 250 or so in Google, it is not too difficult to miss something.
The following naturalists completed work in 2009 for drag-on fly and salamander pins:
Person Class AwardDave Black 21 SalamanderJosh Carter 24 SalamanderMary Doran 21 SalamanderOphelia Ernst 3 SalamanderSteve Guerrant 23 SalamanderJane Henry 19 SalamanderPat Butler 24 Dragon FlyMaxine Dudley 25 Dragon FlyTerry Dudley 25 Dragon FlyJeff Mitchell 23 Dragon Fly
As of Feb 22, 2010 we now can add five more names to the annual pin award of this year’s wood duck and Brent Kinard and Richard Dulany each earned their 500 hour pin. Lon-nie Shockley earned his 250 hour pin. Congratulations to all. Once again, if your Goggle.doc account is not yet activated contact Ling Liu or Wilt Shaw.
As the new master of pin accounts, I am actively check-ing Google files twice a month, just before the monthly meeting and again just before the newsletter deadline. I will begin contacting each of you over the next few months to ensure that our history of your hours is accurate. For those of you in classes 1 – 13, I know we have lost early records. If you have data, particularly for 2002 and 2003 please let me know. If you are having any difficultly with the system, please contact Roy Yarnold 210-497-1088, [email protected] or me, John Wolcott 210-497-4365, [email protected].
Person Class AwardBrent Kinard 20 500 hoursLonnie Shockley 23 250 hoursJane Henry 19 Wood Duck (2010)Ron Manning 24 Wood DuckJ. W. Pieper 13 Wood DuckJohn Wolcott 24 Wood DuckRoy Yarnold 24 Wood Duck
AWARDS SUMMARYBy John H. Wolcott
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By Anton Hajek
HOt tub naturalistfebruary, 2010
It is mid February. We are at the Stock show working the Mas-ter Naturalist part of the Texas Experience. It is interest-ing how may people will NOT touch the skins. Every year
more people know the answers to what we teach here, which I hope means there is a bit more environmental consciousness.
The days are warm, the nights frigid. Gone for a bit are the rains. I know for 30 months I have bemoaned the drought. And I know I will eat these words. But Lord, could you stop the rains for just two weeks?
I haven’t gotten to part of my pasture since September. The ground is saturated. The tanks are overflowing. Some-how the farmer put in a crop which is growing mightily. When the rain runs off, where does it go? To our coastal es-tuaries? Will we have a bumper crop of shrimp and fish? Or will the salinity be affected? I did notice red buds and wine cups blooming while driving from Jourdanton today.
The household foods in the compost pit lasts days now. That means we lack the opossum and the raccoon. I found an opossum dead in the barn, a victim of my rat poison. It climbed on my workbench and what he did not spread about, he ate. I am still cleaning up mess. How he got in and failed to leave I do not know. Actually the barn is a nice shelter. I heard rustling in the back corner. And a squirrel likes the BBQ gazebo having made a nest on the top shelf.
March, 2010
Cibolo Nature Center Contact Kate Villarreal at 830-249-4616 to pre-register or for more information on these programs.
Basic Birding Workshop (3 Parts) Part 1: Optics, Size and Silhouette
Of all the things we can do to become better birders, noth-ing will make a bigger improvement faster than having good binoculars and knowing how to use them.Saturday, March 6, 8-11 a.m. , CNC Auditorium Cost: CNC Members $20/person; non-members $25/person. Pre-registration required. Approved for advanced training
Part 2: Bird Anatomy, Color Patterns, Field Marks, Field Guides
It is important to observe overall color patterns and detailed field marks when using color to identify a bird.
Saturday, March 13, 8-11 a.m., CNC Auditorium Cost: CNC Members $20/person; non-members $25/person. Pre-registration required. Approved for advanced training
Second Saturday Volunteer WorkdaySaturday, March 13, 9 a.m.-noon, CNC Park
Bring family and friends to spend the morning pulling weeds, picking up trash and other to-do projects to help keep the CNC beautiful. Meet at the pavilion at 9 for your assignments.
Approved for volunteer hours
Conservation Easement Workshop: Land Management and Estate Planning in the Hill CountryWednesday, March 17. Time: 6:30 pm., CNC Auditorium. Cost: CNC member $20/person; non-member $25/person. Pre-registration required.Approved for advanced training
Part 3: Behavior and HabitatSaturday, March 20, 8-11 a.m.
Each bird species looks unique; each also has unique ways of acting, moving, sitting, and flying. When we learn these hab-its, we can recognize many birds the same way we notice a friend walking through a crowd of strangers.Cost: CNC Members $20/person; non-members $25/person. Pre-registration required. Approved for advanced training
River Walk Garden WorkdayFriday, March 12 - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.San Antonio Riverwalk Garden
Volunteers are needed to cut, trim, and plant at the San Antonio Riverwalk Garden. Bring cutting tools such as shears, rakes, and
clippers and also gloves and water for this workday.This is our own Master Naturalist project at the
corner of Aubrey and Old Guilbeau (north of Du-rango, the west side of the San Antonio river) on the Riverwalk.
Contact Lan Eng 830-980-2300 or [email protected] or visit www.alamomasternaturalist.orgApproved for volunteer hours
Free! Yes, FREE!I Support Outdoor Ed WorkshopWHERE: Texas Tech Campus in Junction, TexasWHEN: March 26, 27 & 28www.isupportoutdoored.com/workshop.html
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cOmmunity OutreacH calendar
By Pam YarnoldGet involved!
The Community Outreach Committee needs volunteers for the AAMN table at several upcoming events.
San Antonio River Authority’s 2nd Annual GET OUTDOORS EVENTSaturday, March 6, 2010Mission Jose on San Jose Drive10 A.M. - 2 P.M. (2-hour shifts)
THE NPSOT-SA’S NATIVE PLANT DAYSaturday, March 20, 2010Eisenhower Park 9 A.M. - 2 P.M. (2.5-hour shifts)
EARTH DAY AT WOODLAWN LAKE PARKSaturday, April 17, 201010 A.M. - 4 P.M. (2-hour shifts)
11TH ANNUAL EARTH DAY CELEBRATION Thursday, April 8, 2010Northwest Vista College 9 A.M. - 2 P.M. (2-hour shifts)
KING WILLIAMS FAIR-GREEN ZONESaturday, April 24, 201010 A.M. - 6 P.M. (2-hour table shifts)
EVERYBODY LOVES A PARADE AND FAIR!We need volunteers willing to wear your AAMN
T-shirt with silly hats, big glasses and/or big shoes and carry the AAMN banner in the King William Fair Parade. The sillier the better.
KING WILLIAM FAIR PARADESaturday, April 24, 2010Line up at 9 A.M. Starts at 10 A.M. - 1.5 miles
If you can help at the table or in some other area, please contact:
Pam YarnoldAAMN Community [email protected]
Participation in these events as a representative of Texas Master Naturalists is approved for volunteer hours.
Want to stay informed on TMN chapters throughout the state?
Sign up for the TMN LISTSERV.How do I subscribe to the list? You might ask…
To join the TMN LISTSERV mailing list, send an email to [email protected] No "Subject" is required. You do not need to include your email
address in your message. LISTSERV automatically uses the address from your email. Future subscribers can en-roll by sending a message to [email protected] with a simple "subscribe tmn" in the body of the message. The person signing on to the list will receive a response ask-ing them to confirm this request, giving them both a web and e-mail option for confirming that subscription.
Once you sign on you can select how you receive news and info from the program either as it goes out (message by message) or in what is called 'digest' format which is a collection of recent messages sent in one mes-sage to your in-box. The TMN listserve averages about 1 or 2 messages a week, however sometimes, like leading up to the annual meeting and registration notices are a little more frequent, though not extensive. The listserve is moderated so that spam and other messages of that sort do not come through.
Rainwater Harvest WorkshopSaturday, March 20, 9 a.m.-noonCNC auditorium and visit to Kight installationMembers $25/person; non-members $35. Pre-registration required. Call 830-249-4616. Limited to 30.Approved for advanced training
Boerne Birders/CNCSaturday, March 27, 8-10 a.m., Meet at CNC pavilion
Don’t miss this chance to see the migrant and resident birds of a natural area that includes woodland, prairie, marsh and cypress-lined Cibolo Creek.
Approved for advanced training
Natural Landscape Design ClassSaturday, March 27, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., CNC AuditoriumCost: Members $20 per person; non-members $25 per person. Limited to 30. Pre-registration required.
Judit Green, TPWD urban biologist, will focus on using native and adapted plants in this 3-hour landscaping pro-gram. Go home with a list of drought-tolerant plants that are attractive to humans, butterflies and birds.
Approved for advanced training
Or visit their website www.cibolo.org.
Master Naturalists arevolunteers dedicated to the
conservation,preservation and restoration
of our natural resources,promoting
ecological educationfor all ages.
The Alamo Area Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists gratefully acknowledges the support
of our sponsoring organizations:
WWW.ALAMOMASTERNATURALIST.ORGAlamo AreaP.O. Box 690356San Antonio, Texas 78269RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
The Alamo Chapter Texas Master Naturalist Newsletter is published monthly for the members and friends of the chapter. News and information for the newsletter is always welcome.Please contactJoann Smith, [email protected]
May 14th, 2010 - Save the date!
Great news! Save Friday evening, May 14th, 2010 for our Alamo Area Master Naturalists social
gathering at Eisenhower Park. We hope to get as many AAMN members from ALL the classes--#1 to the newest, #26, for a good time. So put the date on your calendar. More information will follow. This event is being co-sponsored with the San Antonio Parks and Recreation.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their information for this month’s newsletter! We have quite a busy month already and spring is on the way. Please remember to submit your events for the month of the publication only as we are currently unable to archive future events.
SOUTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAUHABITAT CONSERVATION PLAN
The SEP-HCP Citizens Advisory Committee will be holding a meeting the evening of Mon-day, March 1, 2010. Meeting details are below:
Monday, March 1, 20103:45pm - 6:00pm Casa Helotes Senior Citizens Center 12070 Leslie Road Helotes, Texas 78023Approved for advanced training
