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Please join us at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 17, 2022, for our monthly chapter meeting. You don’t have to be a member to attend. The meeting site will open for chats and socializing at 6:45 p.m. The presentation will begin at 7:00, followed by the business meeting. If you are interested in becoming more involved in the chapter, please stick around for the business meeting so you can meet chapter leaders.
About the presentation
We are excited to welcome our guest speaker, Claire Sorenson, President-Elect of the NPSOT Austin chapter, who will share her progress developing the NPSOT NICE Program for the Austin Chapter.
How to join the Zoom meeting:
- Click this link or copy and paste it into your browser: https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckc-qtrTwpHNa4bsxu4ZnAPxK_RrDk0mCk
- Input your information. Use an email that you can access.
- You will immediately receive an email with link to Join Meeting.
- Video Recording: The Chapter is recording these meetings and posting them on the state YouTube channel. If you register and join the meeting, NPSOT is accepting that as consent to include and publish your image for use in our educational materials; specifically, in the recorded monthly meetings, that others may view.
Meeting Topic
The NICE Native Plant Partner program is a collaboration between the Native Plant Society of Texas and local nurseries around the state to offer native plants that are right for the local environment.
Texas is a large, diverse state and plants that work for one region may not always be the best choice in a different region. NICE Partner committees, run by our local chapters, highlight native plants of the month or the season in cooperation with participating local nurseries and wholesalers in order to assure availability. The Native Plant Society chapter then helps promote native plants sales to the public by providing signs and plant information sheets at the point of sale, advertising on its website and assisting with onsite plant sale events.
Some information about our speakers
Claire Sorenson
Claire has a background in environment education and management and has volunteered extensively on local environmental projects, including managing the volunteer group Friends of Mary Moore Searight Park for 10 years. She lives on 3 acres in South Austin and has been planting native gardens with a focus on attracting wildlife for 20 years. During Covid, Claire and her husband have tried to visit as many State Parks as they can and have started to venture out to other states. Claire enjoys photographing plant and animal wildlife and posting to iNaturalist at home and on the road.
Claire has been a member of NPSOT for several years, first by taking several Native Plant Landscaping classes, then becoming involved with the NICE Program on the local level, and then being asked to represent NICE at the state level.
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