Meetings are held at Wild Basin Wilderness from 7:00-9:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Click HERE for directions.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- May 19, 2012: Plant Taxonomy Class with Flo Oxley. 10-noon at Wells Branch Community Library . $10. RSVP to Meg Inglis. Remaining classes will be held
- June 16
- July 28
- August 18
- September 15
- October 20
RECENT MEETINGS:
- March 20, 2012: Sean Compton, landscape architect, presented Williamson County’s Protocol for Sustainable Roadsides.
- February 21, 2012: David Matthews, teacher at Small Middle School, presented How to Get Kids Interested in Plants.
- January 17, 2012: Dale Rye, former Williamson County Attorney presented Low Impact Development: Bringing Conservation and Conservatives Together.
- November 15, 2011: Val Bugh, naturalist and photographer, will present Floral Fauna, a survey of tiny critters living within local native floral habitat.
- October 18, 2011: Jared Pyka, of the Native Texas Nursery, presents Native Plant Propagation.
- September 20, 2011: Chuck Sexton, wildlife biologist, will present Energy Flow in the Landscape, a fun, non-technical exploration of how Mother Nature harnesses energy to organize…and disorganize…herself.
- August 16, 2011: Mary Collins Blackman, curator of Austin’s Elizabet Ney Museum, will present an overview of their landscape-restoration project: “Elizabet Ney’s Formosa, 1892-1907, A Native Landscape Dream.”
- June 21, 2011: Beyrl Armstrong, of Plateau Ecological Management Services, presents: “Managing Land to the New Realities of Global Climate Change.” This meeting was preceded at 6:00 p.m. by a gathering of the Rare Plant Rebels (rare plant & seed exchange group).
- May 17, 2011: Andrea DeLong-Amaya & Sean Watson, both of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, present “Lesser-Known, Garden-WorthyNative Plants” respresenting some of the recent success stories they’ve had at the Wildflower Center.
- May 14, 2011: Fieldtrip to central Austin urban restoration projects Willowbrook Reach and Mueller Prairie.
- No Chapter Meeting in April: is a busy time with so many events going on that we do not have a monthly meeting. The must-attend April event is the
- Mar. 15, 2011: Steven Schwartzman wows us with his photography in “The World of Nature in Central Texas.”
- Feb. 15, 2011: Dr. Monica Swartz, Director of the Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve and Assoc. Prof. at St. Edward’s University, presents “Rare Native Plant Conservation at Home–A Radical Proposal.”
- Jan. 18, 2011: Dr. Wendy Gordon, biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, presents “Climate Change, Biodiversity and Texas.”
- Dec. 14, 2010: Winter Social, Silent Auction and Potluck
- Nov. 16, 2010: Dr. Damon Waitt, Senior Botanist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, presents “Venimus, Vidimus, Vicimus – Invasive Species and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.”
- No Chapter Meeting in October: Like April, October is another super busy month. Don’t miss the two annual events:
- Oct. 9-10, 2010: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Plant Sale – Austin, Texas. WFC members can shop early on the 8th.
- Oct. 7-10, 2010: NPSOT State Symposium, 30th Anniversary year – Denton, Texas
- Sept. 21, 2010: Kelly Bender, biologist, author and urban wildlife expert presents “Texas Wildscaping: Attracting Native Wildlife with Native Texas Plants.”
- Aug. 17, 2010: Naturalists, writers, and photographers Brian and Shirley Loflin present “Texas Cacti.” Sale of their book Texas Cacti and signing to follow the presentation.
- No Chapter Meeting in July: The plants are hibernating and so are we!
- June 15, 2010: Jason Singhurst, botanist and plant ecologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife on “Herbaceous Seepage Slopes and Bogs of the West Gulf Coastal Plain“
- May 18, 2010: Mark Klym, Info Specialist, Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept., presents “Hummingbirds of Texas and their Preferred Habitat Components.”
- No Chapter Meeting in April: April is a busy time with so many events going on that we do not have a monthly meeting. Enjoy the Spring! We do have two events:
- April 11-12, 2010: Plant sale at the Wildflower Center
- April 12, 2010: Plant Walk at Brodie Wild
- Mar. 16, 2010: “Easy-to-Grow Native Wildflowers.” NPSOT Austin members’ selection of the 26 easiest and showiest wildflowers to grow in our central Texas gardens. Powerpoint and audience participation.
- Feb. 16, 2010: Dr. Patricia Richardson, Research Fellow at UT’s Dept. of Integrative Biology, presents “Rainbow Soils: Managing for the Ultimate in Soil Quality.”
- Jan. 19, 2010: David Bezanson, North/East Texas Program Mgr., The Nature Conservancy, presented “Rare Plant Communities in Texas.”
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