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Erin Mills, the new Cockrell Butterfly Center Director, highlights some of the plants at this big annual sale that butterfly folks would like to see used more often. Never been to the Cockrell Butterfly Center? You’re missing out on one of Houston true treasures, a delightful experience for both adults and children alike . . . but especially for children.
As part of its mission to educate all of us about the jewels we can attract to our gardens, the Center offers for sale a wide variety of nectar plants for butterflies and host plants for their caterpillars. Plenty of experts will be on hand to answer butterfly gardening questions and help you to create the perfect butterfly habitat.
This workshop is for landowners, real estate professionals, attorneys, advisors, natural resource professionals, and city or county officials to learn about conservation easements and land preservation.
Topics:
- Why save land on the Urban Edge?  What is the Coastal Prairie and How Does it Benefit my Community?
- What is a Conservation Easement?  What is a Land Trust?
- Top 10 Issues of Which any Landowner Should be Aware
- Effects of Land Fragmentation
- Saving Land and Saving Taxes – Income, Estate, and Property; The Appraisal Process
- Funding Sources for Land Preservation, Conservation Easements, and Restoration
Registration is required.
Cost: $15Â Â – Registration includes BBQ lunch
For more information, please visit Katy Prairie Conservancy’s Conservation Easement Workshop.
QuailMasters 2018
Hosted By:Â TWA and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
What is QuailMasters?
A series of intensive, hands-on training sessions designed to expose participants to the best of the best quail habitat in the state of Texas and make them ‘masters’ of the art and science of quail management. Quail-Masters will enhance your decision-making skills relative to 3 phases of quail management.
- Habitat Management
- Population Management
- People Management
Registration
- Quail Masters Student (college) Registration $250
- Quail Masters Full Registration $500
Registration Deadline: April 6, 2018
Register Now
QuailMasters Course Schedule
Requirements for Participation
QuailMasters is a prestigious, intensive program, and we expect 110% of our participants. As a ‘fledgling’ QuailMaster, you will be expected to attend all four sessions of the Quail-Masters program.
Who Could Benefit from Attending QuailMasters?
- Landowners/Managers
- Hunters
- Quail Enthusiasts
- Consultants
- County Agents
- Wildlife Biologists
- College Students*
*3 hours of graduate college credit are available for participation. NOTE: Graduate tuition is separate from QuailMaster’s tuition.
For more events by the Texas Wildlife Association (TWA), visit their Events page!
Interested in Urban Forestry? Come join Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, HAUFC and ISA-TX for a great day of education. Topics include: Emerald Ash Borer – Coming to a City Near You, Using Tree Growth Regulators to Reduce Pruning Costs, and Greening the Houston Region – Partnerships and Projects that Support the Urban Forest.
Do you love the Second Ward? Do you have some time next week to come and talk to us about why?Â
Join Kam Franklin and Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (CEC) for a week of music, fashion, connection, healing, and environmental education.
Second Ward Healing Hours are part of the Houston Inspira public health storytelling campaign.
The week-long event will feature local DJ’s, a food and arts market, and an open recording studio for community members to tell their stories. In 2023, Kam will release several new songs and a visual EP about Second Ward and environmental public health, incorporating stories and testimonials captured during the event.
Sequin Sanctuary will be selling vintage pieces from Kam’s own closet to further promote sustainable fashion, and all money made from the closet during the week will be donated to support CEC.
Do you love the Second Ward? Do you have some time next week to come and talk to us about why?Â
Join Kam Franklin and Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (CEC) for a week of music, fashion, connection, healing, and environmental education.
Second Ward Healing Hours are part of the Houston Inspira public health storytelling campaign.
The week-long event will feature local DJ’s, a food and arts market, and an open recording studio for community members to tell their stories. In 2023, Kam will release several new songs and a visual EP about Second Ward and environmental public health, incorporating stories and testimonials captured during the event.
Sequin Sanctuary will be selling vintage pieces from Kam’s own closet to further promote sustainable fashion, and all money made from the closet during the week will be donated to support CEC.
Do you love the Second Ward? Do you have some time next week to come and talk to us about why?Â
Join Kam Franklin and Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (CEC) for a week of music, fashion, connection, healing, and environmental education.
Second Ward Healing Hours are part of the Houston Inspira public health storytelling campaign.
The week-long event will feature local DJ’s, a food and arts market, and an open recording studio for community members to tell their stories. In 2023, Kam will release several new songs and a visual EP about Second Ward and environmental public health, incorporating stories and testimonials captured during the event.
Sequin Sanctuary will be selling vintage pieces from Kam’s own closet to further promote sustainable fashion, and all money made from the closet during the week will be donated to support CEC.
Do you love the Second Ward? Do you have some time next week to come and talk to us about why?Â
Join Kam Franklin and Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (CEC) for a week of music, fashion, connection, healing, and environmental education.
Second Ward Healing Hours are part of the Houston Inspira public health storytelling campaign.
The week-long event will feature local DJ’s, a food and arts market, and an open recording studio for community members to tell their stories. In 2023, Kam will release several new songs and a visual EP about Second Ward and environmental public health, incorporating stories and testimonials captured during the event.
Sequin Sanctuary will be selling vintage pieces from Kam’s own closet to further promote sustainable fashion, and all money made from the closet during the week will be donated to support CEC.
Do you love the Second Ward? Do you have some time next week to come and talk to us about why?Â
Join Kam Franklin and Citizens’ Environmental Coalition (CEC) for a week of music, fashion, connection, healing, and environmental education.
Second Ward Healing Hours are part of the Houston Inspira public health storytelling campaign.
The week-long event will feature local DJ’s, a food and arts market, and an open recording studio for community members to tell their stories. In 2023, Kam will release several new songs and a visual EP about Second Ward and environmental public health, incorporating stories and testimonials captured during the event.
Sequin Sanctuary will be selling vintage pieces from Kam’s own closet to further promote sustainable fashion, and all money made from the closet during the week will be donated to support CEC.