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SUMMARY:Collin County Chapter - Healthy Habitat: The Hidden Plants and Insects at Texas Discovery Gardens
DESCRIPTION:The grasses\, trees\, forbs\, and shrubs at the Texas Discovery Gardens\, a seven-acre garden in Dallas’ Fair Park\, are managed with ecology in mind. This habitat supports a great diversity of beetles\, bugs\, and botanical growth. Join us to learn more about these “critters” and the plants they need to survive. \n\n\n\nOur program opens at 6:30 with social time and testing of connections\, then at 7:00\, Rodney Thomas\, our chapter president\, will have a short chapter update\, followed by Kerry’s presentation. The meeting will conclude with a Q&A session.You can attend the hybrid meeting in person at the Heard Museum in McKinney (link below) or online via Zoom – https://tinyurl.com/yn85nbzd \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 885 5459 6572 ; Passcode: 571904 \n\n\n\nNo Registration Required \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKerry Gray-Harrison was the Horticulture Director at Texas Discovery Gardens. Located in Dallas’ historic Fair Park\, Texas Discovery Gardens is a year-round urban oasis maintained with environmentally-friendly methods and filled with natural discoveries. She holds a master of landscape architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington\, a master of science in botany from the University of Maine at Orono\, and enjoys propagating native Texas plants.
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/july-chapter-meeting-2/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Meeting,Virtual
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - Keeping it Local: Integrating Native Plants in Your Landscape - Hybrid Clear Lake Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Due to the impending arrival of Beryl\, we have decided to cancel our chapter meeting scheduled for Monday\, July 8\, 2024. Stay safe during the storm and we will see you next month! \n\n\n\nPlease join us for our chapter meeting in person or online! \n\n\n\n6:15 Doors Opens – UHCL Bayou Building\, Room 13336:40 Zoom Opens6:45 Business Meeting6:55 Plant of the Month7:00 Guest Speaker \n\n\n\nWhat’s all the hype about native plants? Through photos and stories\, native Texan Cherie Colburn demonstrates her gardening mantra of “first\, do no harm” by showing how attention to where\, why\, and what’s in our gardens can make us better stewards of our world. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\nA professional landscape designer and native Texan\, Cherie has designed hundreds of low-maintenance commercial and residential landscape designs since 1994 through her company\, Nature’s Tapestry. She’s also helped create schoolyard gardens and habitats throughout Texas. As a garden writer\, she’s authored traditionally published books for both children and adults while also contributing more than 100 magazine and newspaper articles over the last four decades. Cherie’s gardening blog – Garden Dishes – was named by PBS’ Central Texas Gardener as a favorite. \n\n\n\nIn her spare time\, you can find Cherie singing and gardening – often simultaneously – at her home or church in The Woodlands where she feels confident she’s proven the theory that singing to plants makes them grow faster. Or\, maybe that it only works on native plants and noxious weeds! \n\n\n\nIn-person – Parking Pass Required\n\n\n\nIf you have a pass\, don’t forget it – you will not get another one if you picked one up previously. If you need a pass\, arrive early enough to pick one up in Room 1333 (meeting room) and to place it in your car. DO NOT park in faculty/staff parking (enforced 24/7). \n\n\n\nArrive early to socialize and enter your name in the drawing for the door prize. \n\n\n\nMap and Directions – The meeting will be held in Bayou Building Room 1333 at UHCL. \n\n\n\nUniversity of Houston-Clear Lake2700 Bay Area Blvd.Houston\, TX 77058 \n\n\n\nOnline – Zoom\n\n\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis is a FREE EVENT. Meetings are open to members and non-members. If you would like to become a member\, you may join online. For more information about the Native Plant Society of Texas and the benefits of membership please visit: npsot.org. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Environmental Institute of Houston\, University of Houston-Clear Lake.
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/keeping-it-local-integrating-native-plants-in-your-landscape-hybrid-clear-lake-chapter-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Meeting,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) Executive Committee meetings occur monthly and any member may attend. Contact the Executive Director prior to the meeting at state@npsot.org for Zoom and applicable document links. Please be prepared to follow the Visitor’s Executive Meeting Protocol.
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/executive-committee-meeting-6/
CATEGORIES:Committee Meeting,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240711T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240711T200000
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SUMMARY:Water Saving Seminar - Rain Gardens: Where Beauty Meets Functionality
DESCRIPTION:Join the Fort Worth Water Department in this in-person and online seminar. Designed to beautify the landscape\, while at the same time taking advantage of water that would otherwise run down the storm drain\, rain gardens\, and bioswales are a great way to increase your rainwater harvesting capacity. Learn the basics of rain garden design and maintenance along with an overview of the flood of plant material that can thrive in these enticing garden features. We’ll also provide a stream of resources to help you tackle this DIY project or choose the right people to help you get growing. \n\n\n\nLocation: 1700 University Dr.  Fort Worth\, TX 76107 \n\n\n\nMore information and register at  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/water-saving-seminar-rain-gardens-where-beauty-meets-functionality-tickets-744459106227?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/water-saving-seminar-rain-gardens-where-beauty-meets-functionality/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Williamson County Annual Chapter Meeting\, July 11
DESCRIPTION:Join NPSOT-Williamson County Thursday\, July 11\, 2024\, for our annual chapter meeting. Free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM.   \n\n\n\nResults of the chapter board election will be announced and membership anniversary pins will be presented (if the recipient attends in-person; if not attending this meeting in-person\, the pins will be provided another way after the meeting).  \n\n\n\nExciting news! We’ll also have a short discussion about a new project. NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter is developing a user-friendly database of native plants for Williamson County. Find out the goals and the benefits to the chapter and the public.  \n\n\n\nNOTE: this month’s in-person location is the Georgetown Public Library\, 2nd floor\, 402 West 8th St\, Georgetown\, TX 78626. \n\n\n\nThe original meeting announcement is here on the Williamson County Chapter’s blog page.
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/williamson-county-annual-chapter-meeting-july-11/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Meeting,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240717T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240717T193000
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SUMMARY:Stewardship for Birds in Aquatic & Riparian Habitats
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Coauthors of Land Stewardship for Birds – Jan Wrede: Environmental Educator and Writer; Rufus Stephens: Wildlife Biologist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRiparian corridors have the greatest diversity of bird species and the greatest abundance of individual birds compared to most other habitat types. Also\, riparian birds are an excellent indicator of riparian and aquatic ecosystem health\, and stewardship for birds along riparian corridors increases the quality of the entire ecosystem. This webinar will discuss breeding and migratory bird species that live in different levels of the riparian and aquatic habitats and have different survival needs. It will include the serious environmental problems these birds face as well as their causes and the solutions land stewards can provide. \n\n\n\nThe speaker are coauthors of “Land Stewardship for Birds”  \n\n\n\n\nJan Wrede: Environmental Educator and Writer & retired from the Cibolo Nature Center\n\n\n\nRufus Stephens: TPWD Wildlife Biologist & Rufus Wildlife Consulting\, LLC\n\n\n\n\nRegister for this virtual event here.
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/stewardship-for-birds-in-aquatic-riparian-habitats/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240718T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240718T130000
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SUMMARY:Chapter Leader Forum
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Native Seed Library Program  \n\n\n\nDescription:  \n\n\n\nPlease join us as Craig Bruska talks about the native seed library program that he set up between the Lindheimer chapter and the Tye Preston Memorial Library in Canyon Lake this year. He is currently helping expand the program to libraries in the region. He will talk about: \n\n\n\n\nIdentifying local native seed collectors and sources\n\n\n\nConnecting with local seed networks (Central Texas Seed Savers)\n\n\n\nFinding a partner site (Libraries\, Nature Centers\, and other similar sites)\n\n\n\nHelping the partner site set up their program\n\n\n\nChoosing between a library inventory system or Scientific/Common Name indexing\n\n\n\nUsing the native seed library as a means of media outreach\n\n\n\nDocumenting the agreement (Model User Agreement)\n\n\n\nOther benefits\, challenges\, and documents used\n\n\n\n\nThere will be plenty of time for your questions! \n\n\n\nPresenter: \n\n\n\nCraig Bruska\, Guadalupe and Lindheimer NPSOT Chapters \n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday\, July 18\, 2024 (Third Thursday) 12 – 1 pm \n\n\n\nZoom Registration Link:https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtduCsqjwjE9xgj__tXVbLjuHjH9EZe_hH
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/chapter-leader-forum-8/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Leader Forum,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240718T200000
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SUMMARY:Greener Gulfton: Native Plants for Health\, Resilience\, and Biodiversity - July 18
DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to continued power outage at the Houston Arboretum\, we are not able to offer an in-person meeting this week. We will meet via Zoom only. Please register to ensure we have capacity for all who want to participate:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclduiorj8oHNeUPLx31SwIQ-Yh6I8MfMoY\n\n\n\nGulfton is a culturally rich neighborhood in southwest Houston with great leadership and a can-do spirit. Yet\, it is a nature-deprived neighborhood\, putting the human community at risk for rising temperatures\, air pollution\, and increased stress levels. Fortunately an effort is underway to plant trees\, provide nature-rich shade shelters\, bus stops and more! Part of this transformation is the Greener Gulfton effort and we will tell that story. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\nJaime González is an award-winning conservationist\, environmental educator\, public speaker\, and coalition builder working at the intersection of human health\, biodiversity conservation\, equity\, and climate action. He works to influence policy\, secure funding\, catalyze planning and embed community-based projects that unlock the power of nature for community well-being and environmental health. Jaime serves as board chair for the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)\, as a board member for Madres del Parque\, and as a climate justice advisor to Harris County. He formerly worked for The Nature Conservancy\, the Coastal Prairie Conservancy\, Houston Arboretum & NatureCenter\, and the Nature Heritage Society. \n\n\n\nJaime has won numerous local\, state\, and national awards for his work\, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Houston’s College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics\, the 2022 Houston Visionary Award from Center for Houston’s Future\, the Prairie Champion Award from the Coastal Prairie Conservancy\, and the Elizabeth Hull Abernathy Award from the Garden Club of America for outstanding contributions to environmental education of youth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur monthly chapter meetings are held on every 3rd Thursday\, January – November. Our meetings are free and open to the public thanks to our members and sponsors.  \n\n\n\nMeetings will also be live-streamed and recorded for later viewing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Houston Chapter Page
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/monthly-chapter-meeting-july-18/
CATEGORIES:Chapter Meeting,Virtual
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SUMMARY:July Trinity Forks Business Meeting & Program - "Native Plants in Schools"
DESCRIPTION:6:30pm – Social time7:00pm – Hybrid classroom/Zoom meeting opens. \n\n\nWe hope you can join our meeting in person at TWU’s Ann Stuart Science Complex.  Campus parking is open after 6:00pm. \nIf you can’t join us in person\, we invite you to our \nZoom meeting.ZOOM PARTICIPANTS ONLY: Please Register in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYodeCtrzoiE9LnBQR0XcOYymsF2Li5-B4G \nAfter registering\, youwill receive a confirmation email containinginformation about joining the meeting. \n \nNative Plants in Schools presented by Haeley Giambalvo\, founder of the web site Native Backyards web\, author of the book Native Plant Gardening for Beginners\, and winner of the 2023 Digital Media Award for outstanding work in digital media. \nPublic Welcome. Free Admission. Hosted by the Native Plant Society of Texas – Trinity Forks chapter. \n \n \nThis presentation discusses how teachers\, students\, parents\, and community volunteers can incorporate native plants into their school gardens and yards. \n \n \nResources provided during Haeley’s talk include the Native Plant Society of Texas’ native plant School Garden Starter Guide\, School Garden Examples\, a downloadable Native Plants for Kids presentation\, and free curriculum and activities resources for making learning about native plants fun. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nxr:d:DAF-SmtXZUA:3\,j:4107703193851996815\,t:24030118
URL:https://www.npsot.org/event/july-trinity-forks-business-meeting-program/
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