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Annual Meeting Scholarships Available

by | Aug 31, 2023

North Texas Master Naturalists: If you are attending the 2023 annual meeting in October, you might qualify for a scholarship from the chapter. We have limited funds available for members in financial need. Qualification for scholarships may include: 1. Members who are...

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Announcements from the August Chapter Meeting

by | Aug 18, 2023

The Announcements Please view the full set of August announcements by clicking here. Opportunities and contacts, websites, and other details are available on the calendar. Our President, Scott Hudson, is having some medical issues, so I stepped in to chair the...

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September 6, 2023 Chapter Meeting

September 6, 2023 Chapter Meeting

by | Aug 8, 2023

Weather 101 Jamie Gudmestad, National Weather Service meteorologist, will cover an often-discussed topic, the weather. Jamie will tell us how the National Weather Service has evolved and how the NWS works with local partners to educate and alert the public about...

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August 2, 2023 Chapter Meeting

August 2, 2023 Chapter Meeting

by | Jul 18, 2023

Beyond our Backyards: An Introduction to Wilderness Navigation

In this overview, Arthur Kuehne will share tips and techniques that will enable you to feel confident when you travel beyond your backyard to study and enjoy nature. While he won’t go into great detail on the technical aspects of map, compass, gps, etc., he will share practical advice from his many years of backpacking. Join us and learn about the key tools and techniques of wilderness navigation, and the most common navigation mistakes hikers make and how to avoid them. 

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Announcements from the July 2023 Chapter Meeting

by | Jul 8, 2023

Highlights from the July 2023 Summer Social The Announcements Important Member Survey – NTMN needs your help! If you haven’t already, please respond to the survey on chapter service (previous mail chimp message). We have many opportunities available and would love to...

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Chapter Meeting
September 4, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Room 125.
The Ends of the World, Are We There Yet? This meeting will be a survey of past mass extinctions and their causes along with comparisons...
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Moth Night at Twelve Hills Nature Center (AT)
September 5, 2024    
7:45 pm - 11:00 pm
Twelve Hills Nature Center
Moth Night at Twelve Hills Nature Center (AT) Thursday, September 5, 2024  7:45 PM – 11:00 PM As the sun sets, join us at Twelve...
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1st Saturday Walk & Talk Bird Tour at John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (AT)
September 7, 2024    
7:30 am - 9:30 am
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (AT)
1st Saturday Walk & Talk Bird Tour at John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (AT) Saturday, September 7, 2024  |  7:30am-9:30am Join us as we go...
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Heard Museum || 1st Saturday Guided Trails (AT)
September 7, 2024    
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary
Heard Museum || 1st Saturday Guided Trails (AT) Saturday, September 7, 2024  ||  9:30am – 11:30am CT Description:  New for Fall 2024: these programs will...
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LLELA  || 1st Saturday Nature Walk–(AT)
September 7, 2024    
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area Classroom
LLELA  || 1st Saturday Nature Walk–(AT) Saturday, September 07, 2024  ||  10am -12am  CT Join us for our monthly naturalist-led nature walk! Description:  Each season...
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How Ned Fritz Turned Dallas Green
September 7, 2024    
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
J. Erik Jonsson Central Library
Tune in for an inspiring presentation about Ned Fritz, Texas’ greatest environmentalist, woven with excerpts of his nature poetry and photos of places he protected....
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Tandy Hills Prairie Sky/Star Party (FYI)
September 7, 2024    
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Tandy Hills Natural Area
Tandy Hills Prairie Sky/Star Party (FYI) Saturday, September 7, 2024   7:30 PM or after dark The Fort Worth Astronomical Society presents their Saturday star party...
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LLELA || 2nd Saturday Bird Walk (AT)
September 14, 2024    
7:30 am - 11:00 am
Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area
LLELA || 2nd Saturday Bird Walk (AT) Saturday, September 14, 2024  |  7:30am – 11:00am   CT Description:  Birders of all skill levels are welcome to...
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TMN-Elm Fork Chapter || Nature Trail Walk at Furneaux Creek (AT)
September 14, 2024    
8:00 am - 10:00 am
TMN-Elm Fork Chapter || Nature Trail Walk at Furneaux Creek (AT) Saturday, September 14, 2024   8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Meet at the Kiosk on...
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Heard Museum || 2nd Saturday Bird Walk (AT)
September 14, 2024    
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary
Heard Museum || 2nd Saturday Bird Walk (AT) Saturday, September 14, 2024  |  8am-9:30am CT 2nd Saturday Bird Walks are intended to help beginning and...
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Trinity River Audubon Center || Second Saturday Guided Hike (AT)
September 14, 2024    
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Trinity River Audubon Center (TRAC)
Trinity River Audubon Center || Second Saturday Guided Hike (AT) Saturday, September 14, 2024  ||  8:30am – 10am  CT Description: Join us for a guided...
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Nature Unidos at Trinity River Audubon Center
September 14, 2024    
9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Trinity River Audubon Center
Nature Unidos at Trinity River Audubon Center Saturday, September 14, 2024 9am - 2pm   Trinity River Audubon Center. Outreach table in the Great Hall. TRAC...
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World Cleanup Day at White Rock Lake
September 15, 2024    
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sunset Bay at White Rock Lake
Since 2018, World Cleanup Day has become the biggest civic movement in human history, uniting 211 countries and territories and 91 million volunteers all striving...
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World Cleanup Day at White Rock Lake
September 15, 2024    
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sunset Bay at White Rock Lake
Join NTMN Van Nguyen and Anthony Lazon from Dallas For Change for the 7th Annual World Cleanup Day!  We will be picking up trash from the...
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Heard Museum || 3rd Thursday Bird Walk (AT)
September 19, 2024    
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary
Heard Museum || 3rd Thursday Bird Walk (AT) Saturday, September 19, 2024  |  8am – 9:30am CT 3rd Thursday Bird Walks in the Heard Wildlife...
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I Am an Island - Play Performance at AT&T Performing Arts Center
I Am an Island - Play Performance at AT&T Performing Arts Center
September 19, 2024 - September 22, 2024    
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Wyly Studio Theatre
I AM AN ISLAND is a surrealist dark comedy—think Sarah Ruhl meets Samuel Beckett—set on an island sinking into the sea. Our hero, May, tries...
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Trinity River Audubon Center || Morning Bird Walk (AT)
September 21, 2024    
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Trinity River Audubon Center
Trinity River Audubon Center || Morning Bird Walk (AT) Saturday, September 21, 2024  |  7:30am-8:30am  CT Description:  Hit the trails with us to spot some...
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Canyon Creek Wetland and Wildscape Workday
September 21, 2024    
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Prairie Creek Marsh and Wildscape
Canyon Creek Wetland and Wildscape Monthly workday 1001 G. Bush Freeway ( Hilton Garden Inn) Every third Saturday 8am-10am Prairie maintenance, habitat building, Trash collection,...
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Big Chapter Project: Oakland Cemetary
September 21, 2024    
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Oakland Cemetary
Big Chapter Project The Constellation of Living Memorials Prairie Restoration at Oakland Cemetery Address: 3900 Oakland Cir, Dallas, TX 75215 This event qualifies for VH and one...
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3rd Saturday Guided Boardwalk Tour at John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (AT)
September 21, 2024    
9:00 am - 10:30 am
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (AT)
3rd Saturday Guided Boardwalk Tour at John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (AT) Saturday, September 21, 2024  9:00 AM – 10:30 AM    CT    As your...
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Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center || Guided Tree ID Walk (AT)
September 21, 2024    
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center at Cedar Hill
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center || Guided Tree ID Walk (AT) Saturday, September 21, 2024  || 10am– 11:30am   CT Description:  "Raptors of North Texas, Join us...
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Ned Fritz Nature Preservation || Annual Ned Fritz Day Walk on Fall Equinox (AT)
September 22, 2024    
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ned & Genie Fritz Texas Buckeye Trail
Ned Fritz Nature Preservation || Annual Ned Fritz Day Walk on Fall Equinox (AT) Sunday, September  22, 2024 || 1:00pm – 3:00pm   CT  Description: Forty-one...
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Monthly Board Meeting Via Zoom
September 30, 2024    
7:23 pm - 8:23 pm
Board Meetings are open to all members and to the public. Please contact the Vice President at vicepresident@ntmn.org for meeting details if you want to...
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Chapter Meeting
October 2, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Room 125.
Chapter Meeting Placeholder. A further description monthly meeting will appear here as the scheduled meeting draws near. Join us in north Dallas at Dallas College...
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John Bunker Sands Wetland Center || 1st Saturday Walk & Talk Bird Tour (AT)
October 5, 2024    
7:30 am - 9:30 am
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center || 1st Saturday Walk & Talk Bird Tour (AT) Saturday, October 5, 2024  ||  7:30am – 9:30am Join us as...
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Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center || 1st Saturday Bird Walk (AT)
October 5, 2024    
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center || 1st Saturday Bird Walk (AT) Saturday, October 5, 2024  || 8:30am – 9:30am   CT Description:  A guided bird walk. It...
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Heard Museum || 1st Saturday Guided Trails  (AT)
October 5, 2024    
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary
Heard Museum || 1st Saturday Guided Trails  (AT) Saturday, October 5, 2024  |  9:30am – -10:30am CT Description: Experience the ecology, geology, flora and fauna...
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LLELA ||1st Saturday Nature Walk–(AT)
October 5, 2024    
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area
LLELA ||1st Saturday Nature Walk–(AT) Saturday, October 05, 2024  |  10am -12am  CT Join us for our monthly naturalist-led nature walk! Description:  Each season at...
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Events on September 4, 2024
04 Sep
Chapter Meeting
4 Sep 24
Farmers Branch
Events on September 5, 2024
05 Sep
Moth Night at Twelve Hills Nature Center (AT)
5 Sep 24
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Events on September 7, 2024
07 Sep
1st Saturday Walk & Talk Bird Tour at John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (AT)
7 Sep 24
Seagoville
07 Sep
Heard Museum || 1st Saturday Guided Trails (AT)
7 Sep 24
McKinney
07 Sep
LLELA  || 1st Saturday Nature Walk–(AT)
7 Sep 24
Lewisville
07 Sep
How Ned Fritz Turned Dallas Green
7 Sep 24
Dallas
07 Sep
Tandy Hills Prairie Sky/Star Party (FYI)
7 Sep 24
Fort Worth
Events on September 14, 2024
14 Sep
LLELA || 2nd Saturday Bird Walk (AT)
14 Sep 24
Lewisville
14 Sep
TMN-Elm Fork Chapter || Nature Trail Walk at Furneaux Creek (AT)
14 Sep 24
14 Sep
Heard Museum || 2nd Saturday Bird Walk (AT)
14 Sep 24
McKinney
14 Sep
Trinity River Audubon Center || Second Saturday Guided Hike (AT)
14 Sep 24
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14 Sep
Nature Unidos at Trinity River Audubon Center
14 Sep 24
DALLAS
Events on September 15, 2024
15 Sep
World Cleanup Day at White Rock Lake
15 Sep 24
Dallas
15 Sep
World Cleanup Day at White Rock Lake
15 Sep 24
Dallas
Events on September 19, 2024
19 Sep
Heard Museum || 3rd Thursday Bird Walk (AT)
19 Sep 24
McKinney
I Am an Island - Play Performance at AT&T Performing Arts Center
I Am an Island - Play Performance at AT&T Performing Arts Center
19 Sep 24
Dallas
Events on September 21, 2024
21 Sep
Trinity River Audubon Center || Morning Bird Walk (AT)
21 Sep 24
DALLAS
21 Sep
Canyon Creek Wetland and Wildscape Workday
21 Sep 24
Richardson
21 Sep
Big Chapter Project: Oakland Cemetary
21 Sep 24
Dallas
21 Sep
3rd Saturday Guided Boardwalk Tour at John Bunker Sands Wetland Center (AT)
21 Sep 24
Seagoville
21 Sep
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center || Guided Tree ID Walk (AT)
21 Sep 24
Cedar Hill
Events on September 22, 2024
22 Sep
Ned Fritz Nature Preservation || Annual Ned Fritz Day Walk on Fall Equinox (AT)
22 Sep 24
Dallas
Events on September 30, 2024
30 Sep
Monthly Board Meeting Via Zoom
30 Sep 24
Events on October 2, 2024
02 Oct
Chapter Meeting
2 Oct 24
Farmers Branch
Events on October 5, 2024
05 Oct
John Bunker Sands Wetland Center || 1st Saturday Walk & Talk Bird Tour (AT)
5 Oct 24
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05 Oct
Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center || 1st Saturday Bird Walk (AT)
5 Oct 24
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05 Oct
Heard Museum || 1st Saturday Guided Trails  (AT)
5 Oct 24
McKinney
05 Oct
LLELA ||1st Saturday Nature Walk–(AT)
5 Oct 24
Lewisville