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Events Volunteer Opportunities NEWS Education & Training Alamo Area Chapter www.txmn.org/alamo Volume 16, No. 9 September 2012 By Liz Robbins Board Meeting PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE September 11 5:30 pm CLASS 30 MEMBERS - Bonnie Carson, AgriLIFE Extension Alba De Leon & Daniel Young, helping Classroom #208 with the Eastside Garden Make-Over Pro- ject, August 15! General Meeting Photo by Bruce Fried - Class 26 Send us your pictures. We love to BRAG! September 11 7:00-8:00 pm SCHOLARSHIP OFFER - Are you at- Fire on the Mountain tending the TMN annual meeting at Nava- (page 2 for details) sota, Texas? If you are and have not sent AgriLIFE Extension in your name to Liz, please do so ASAP. Classroom #208 There is a small scholarship being offered to those attending. We will have a drawing for one lucky participant at the next general meet- 3355 Cherry Ridge ing, September 11, at 7:00 pm. Winner will be notified by email. Names submitted so far are: San Antonio, TX 78232 Volunteers are needed to cut, trim, and plant at the San Antonio Anton Hajek, Josie Gonzales, Le Lynn Koch, Nancy Phillips, and Nancy Thoss. River Walk Garden. Bring cutting tools such as shears, rakes, Good luck everyone! and clippers and also gloves and water for this workday. This is an AAMN project at the corner of Aubrey and Old AAMN BOARD ELECTIONS - November will be a busy month for elections, including our Guilbeau on the Riverwalk. very own chapter elections. The nominating committee, chaired by Anton Hajek with members Lan Eng (830) 980-2300 or [email protected] President Approved for Volunteer Service Hours Wendy Thornton and Ron Tullius, will be submitting a slate of candidates to you in October. If Liz Robbins you are interested in becoming the next AAMN chapter president, vice president, secretary or [email protected] treasurer, please let Anton, Ron or Wendy know as soon as possible. 830-336-2778 For more information on election procedures. click on http://txmn.org/alamo/documents/ Vice-President chapter-documents/ and scroll down to "ARTICLE V: Officers and Other Board Members - Linda Gindler Section E., Election of Officers." Due to the chapter board elections, the November 13 general [email protected] meeting will begin at 6:30 PM! Please mark your calendars. Treasurer TWO POTLUCKS FOR AAMN MEMBERS IN SEPTEMBER! Nancy Thoss Please join us for 2 special dates in September. On Thursday, September 6 the AAMN Hospi- [email protected] tality Committee will welcome Class 31. Class starts at 12:30 pm with our lunch break at 2 pm, so bring your favorite side dish or dessert prior to that time, and join us for lunch! Secretary Barbara Harder On Tuesday, September 11 we’re meeting at 6:30 pm to have a sandwich and salad potluck [email protected] prior to the 7:00 pm general meeting. Please bring your favorite sandwiches, salad or dessert around 6:15 pm. Immediate Past President Anton Hajek RSVP to Nancy Brown at [email protected] or Alicia Hoover at [email protected] [email protected] Corpus Christi Hawk Watch, Everyday in September, 8am – 5pm, (map), Open to the Public. The hawk watching event just 7 miles north of Corpus Christi has been approved for MN volunteer hours. Click the links to find out more about Hawk Watch International, CC Birding and all their research sites. If you have any questions, please contact: Liz Robbins - srob- [email protected]. Etiquette & Equipment - Binoculars. Wear comfortable clothes and dress for the weather. If you have a reclining folding chair, that would work. Bring insect repellent, also! You just show up between the days posted, from 8:A - 5:P. Introduce yourself, tell them you're with AAMN and you're there to help. They need you to look up into the sky all the time and announce when you see anything flying in the sky. Once you spot an object in the sky, don't put binoculars down till they tell you. You keep looking at the object till they run over to where you are and identify it. It's tons of fun, Liz Robbins Approved for Volunteer Service Hours NEWS FROM THE BOARD COMMITTEES Projects to be reviewed for approval as a Master Naturalist activity must be submitted on the Submission for Activity Approval form before the event. Forms can be obtained by contacting Activities Information Pamela Ball, [email protected], or from the AAMN website at: http://txmn.org/alamo/join- Chair Pam Ball the-alamo-chapter/activity-approval-form/ [email protected] PLEASE REPORT YOUR HOURS ! Community Outreach Chair Lissa Martinez ACTIVATE YOUR 2012 GOOGLE.DOCS ACCOUNT TODAY [email protected] Reporting hours is easy on Google.Docs. See directions below. If you need help, contact: Historian Last names A-H Last Names I-M Last names N-Z Peggy York Nancy Thoss Howard Homan Deb Balderaz . [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ‘One of a kind’ recertification pins are awarded each year to those who achieve eight hours of Hospitality advanced training and 40 hours of volunteer service. This year that pin is a Mexican Free-tailed Co-Chair Nancy Brown Bat. Milestone dragonfly pins are also awarded for 250, 500, 1000, 2500, and 5000 VSH. [email protected] Co-Chair Alicia Hoover [email protected] MONTHLY MEETING Guadalupe River State Natural Area Call 830-438-7653 for program times and details or check Membership September 11 Program: Fire on the out the park at http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/ Chair Nancy Thoss Mountain: Davis Mountains Wildland guadalupe-river. Some programs have fees and/or size [email protected] Fire: History, Role & Research limits. (map) Our September speaker is John Karges, Bird in the Hand, Sat, September 1, 9am – 12pm, Media & Technology the Associate Director of Field Science Join us for a morning of up-close looks at the birds of Gua- Chair David Reichert with The Nature Conservancy in San dalupe River State Park. We’ll set up our mist nets at our Newsletter/Web Antonio. His professional specialty is bird feeding station to capture cardinals, chickadees and [email protected] vertebrate zoology, zoogeography, and other local songbirds. Approved for Advanced Training Calendar natural history, and tying it all to the Frank Ballard conservation of special places: land, A Froggin’ We’ll Go, Sat, September 1, 8pm – 9pm, [email protected] habitats and ecosystems. For nearly two Join our Park Interpreter for a look at the world of frogs decades, John worked in the West Texas and toads. Together we’ll discover their amazing adapta- Programs program where he was land steward, tions, learn about their life cycles, and which kinds live in Chair Jessica Leslie conservation biologist, and regional the Park and Natural Area. Approved for Advanced Training [email protected] program manager before moving to San Bauer Unit Bird Walk, Sun, September 2 & 30, 8:30am – Antonio in 2009 to take on a statewide 12:00pm, Whether you are a beginning birdwatcher or Education & Training biologist function. seasoned birder, help us learn about the birds of the Bauer Chair Pam Ball John will talk about the Davis Moun- Unit. We will be conducting monthly bird surveys/walks [email protected] tains’ fire history and research. The to document the birds of this area. Davis Mountains are a “sky island” in Approved for Advanced Training the northeastern Chihuahuan Desert. It is the second highest mountain range in Bugs-R-Us! Sat, September 8, 10:00am – 11:30am, From butterflies to dragonflies, Texas. Wildfires of 2011 and 2012 cer- beetles to all kinds of other bugs, we’ll spend the morning in search of our six-legged tainly were in the public eye, causing wonders with nets in hand. Approved for Advanced Training horror and amazement. Yet the moun- Geocaching 101, Sat, September 15, 10:00am – 11:30am & repeated at 2:00- tains’ ecosystem is one of a natural 3:30pm, Geocaching has become a popular sport and pastime to more than four million wildland fire regime, and the species people. Join us for an introductory and hands-on workshop on the basics of geocaching. and natural plant communities have cer- We’ll provide the instruction, use of our GPS units and get you started on what is a won- tain adaptations, responses, and resil- derful individual or family activity you can do anywhere. Approved for Advanced Training iency to fire. We will focus on the natu- Honey Creek Bird Walk, Sun, September 16, 8:30am – 12:00pm, Whether you ral role of fire in the mountains from the are a beginning birdwatcher or seasoned birder, join Park Interpreter Craig Hensley for a landscape scale to the responses of na- bird walk along the trails of Honey Creek State Natural Area. Approved for Advanced Training ture to the human dimension. The rein- Making of a Naturalist Series: Hill Country Wildflowers, Thu, Septem- troduction of managed fire with pre- ber 20, 10am – 3pm, This workshop will provide you an introduction/refresher on the scriptions and controls for land restora- diversity and identification of wildflowers found in the area. The Friends Group is proud tion and the capitalization on even some to offer these first in a series of natural history workshops for Master Naturalists and of the benefits, results, and outcomes of other interested people at Guadalupe River State Park. Each session will provide partici- the wildfires will all be braided together pants with a look at different aspects of the natural world.