Please join us for our March Chapter Meeting where Cheryl Hamilton will be giving her presentation titled “Invasive Plants: Stop the Spread, Spread the Word!” This presentation will be in-person, but also available over Zoom.

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Invasive plants are wreaking havoc on the health of our ecosystems.  They cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. The Edwards Plateau “Dirty Dozen” form monocultures. They displace and compete with native plants and alter hydrologic conditions, nutrient flow and fire patterns.  Removal of invasive plants and replacement with native plants is essential to restoring the biodiversity of our public and private lands.

Cheryl Hamilton, Co-Founder (lower right)

Balcones Invaders of Texas Program

San Antonio, TX

Cheryl has been a member of the San Antonio Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas since 2008 and an Alamo Area Master Naturalist since 2007. Cheryl co-founded the Balcones Satellite of the Invaders of Texas Program in 2010. Since inception, teams of volunteer citizen scientists have eradicated more than 200,000 invasive plants from city, state and national parks in the San Antonio area.

Cheryl has presented more than 100 invasive and native plant workshops at the local, state and national level since 2009. She is an instructor for Alamo Area Master Naturalist program and for the Native Landscape Certification Program in San Antonio. For three months every summer, Cheryl volunteers as a Visitor Protection Ranger at Big Bend National Park.  Cheryl received a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 for contributing more than 4,000 volunteer hours to the master naturalist program.