Urban Ecology Center – Phil Hardberger Park

The purposes of this event include appreciating the beauty of our natural area, observing how nature changes through the seasons, and learning about our native and invasive grasses. Presenter Cleve Powell, a NPSOT-SA member and SAWS Conservation Planner, is a self-described plant nerd heavy into collecting, identifying, and propagating natives. With an MS from TCU […]

Presenter Josie Gonzales is a Certified Interpretive Guide and Texas Master Naturalist. She’ll discuss Ethnobotany in the context of actual plants in the Phil Hardberger Park. Ethnobotany is how people of a particular culture and region make use of native plants. Plants sustain people not only as food and as medicine, but provide materials, dyes, […]

For NPSOT's July chapter meeting, Mike Quinn will present an in-depth unique perspective on the abundance, distribution and interactions of a wide range of Central Texas’ plants and animals. Mike, with his degrees in wildlife and entomology from Texas A&M, has been in and out of central Texas since 1978 and has studied the ornithology, […]