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Happy Trails
Got a chance to hike with CAMN member Michelle P. yesterday, one last time before she leaves Austin on her big adventure north. We hiked a few of the trails over in Bauerle Ranch, stopping to admire a ridge of lace cacti and watch a grey fox cross our paths, as well as the many…
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Volunteers Helped This!
The creek that feeds this cave only runs about every 18 months, volunteers have helped make every drop count! #WQPL pic.twitter.com/pvCeAyRzKo — Austin Water (@AustinWater) March 23, 2015
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Nominating Honorary Members
Members of CAMN can nominate and elect people to be honorary members of the group. Honorary members become full, voting members of CAMN without the requirement of training and certification, and would be eligible to receive our emails, participate in member events and volunteer work, and even serve on the board of directors. Honorary membership is…
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CAMN at 2015 Celebrate Urban Birds
For several years, CAMN has been involved in a nationally-connected program to inform members of the public about the presence, needs and protection of birds we find in our city and suburban lives. Celebrate Urban Birds, a year-round project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has partnered with over 9,000 community-based organizations, distributed more than 250,000…
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The 2015 Awards Ceremony and Silent Auction
Feb. 15 Awards Ceremony First off, I have to brag about the sheer NUMBER of people who attended this event. We had 75 CAMNers and family members attend the show, held this year at what was probably the perfect venue, the Redbud Center at LCRA. With its impressive water-wise demo gardens, model of the Highland…
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Texas Amphibian Watch Monitoring in 2014
By Sandie Mayfield, Sue Anderson, Beth Duncan, and Kathy McCormack The Capital Area Master Naturalists (CAMN) had five teams performing TPWD’s Texas Amphibian Watch (TAW) Adopt-A-Frog-Pond monitoring in 2014. Nocturnal frog and toad calls were monitored on a monthly basis at Bauerle Ranch Park (formerly Slaughter Creek Greenbelt) and Mary Moore Searight Park in south…
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Central Texas Gardener
In addition to being stewards of natural habitat and resources, Texas Master Naturalists are often gardeners, too. Sometimes they are also a part of the Texas Master Gardeners Association, a parallel program for training volunteers in local horticulture. As such, there is a lot of overlap in our areas of expertise, with a curiosity about all…
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Trail Building at the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve
Nine hard-working members of the Central Texas Trail Tamers and Capital Area Master Naturalists had a fun and productive day at the City of Austin’s BCP Reicher Tract Saturday, February 14th (Valentine’s Day). We worked on an old trail originally put in by volunteer groups in the 1990’s. Frequently used for docent-led hikes (many of…
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Blanco River–Trinity Aquifer-Barton Springs Connection
Nico Hauwert, CoA’s Watershed Protection Department senior hydrologist and teacher of Geology for the current CAMN trainees, provided us some links concerning the connections between the Hays County instance of the Trinity Aquifer, the Blanco River, and their roles in keeping area springs – including Barton – flowing during times of drought. Previous thinking linked Barton…
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