Oct 21 2024

Lights Out Texas: Fall Migration Season - Texas (Aug. 15-Nov. 30)

Aug 15 2024 - 11:00pm to Nov 30 2024 - 6:00am
Statewide TX

Lights Out Texas organizers ask that residents, building managers and businesses turn off their outdoor lights from 11 p.m. till 6 a.m. from Aug. 15 to Nov. 30 to prevent bird deaths. Outdoor lighting distracts and confuses migrating birds who typically fly at night.

Peak fall migration season is Sept. 5 to Oct. 29.

NPSOT & TPWF: Native Plant Promotion - Select H-E-B Stores (Oct. 16-Oct. 30)

Oct 16 2024 - 11:00am to Oct 30 2024 - 2:00pm
Select H-E-B stores TX

From Oct. 16-30, 200-plus H-E-B stores will offer a wide selection of native plants, including stores in Allen, Burleson, Cleburne, Ennis, Frisco, Fort Worth (Alliance), Granbury, Hudson Oaks, Mansfield, McKinney and Stephenville.

In celebration of Texas Native Plant Week, the nonprofit Native Plant Society of Texas will table and educate customers, at select H-E-B stores, about Texas native plants.

In addition, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation Pollinators & Prairies Seed Giveaway will be held on Oct. 19, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. 

See participating H-E-B stores.

Cross Timbers Master Naturalists: Creation of Palo Pinto Mts State Park - Fort Worth

Oct 21 2024 - 7:00pm
Fort Worth Botanic Garden
3220 Botanic Garden Blvd
Fort Worth , TX

Presenter: Kate Fisher, Park Interpreter for Palo Pinto Mountains State Park

Did you know that Texas is about to have a new state park?! About 75 miles west of DFW, you’ll enter the Palo Pino Mountains. Just north of the freeway, lies 4,871 acres of former ranch land that is now Palo Pinto Mountains State Park. 

Learn about the park history, park ecology, process before building and current construction status of Texas’s newest park.

Native Plant Society of Texas, Dallas Chapter: Conserving Texas Native Plant Biodiversity (Seed Banking, Biology & Research at BRIT) - Dallas & Zoom

Oct 21 2024 - 7:00pm
Gaston Christian Center
8515 Royal Lane
Dallas , TX

Seed bank conservation botanist Kay Hankins leads a guided exploration through the journey of a seed from the field to DFW’s very own Conservation Seed Bank housed right here in the Metroplex at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. Along the way, learn more about the importance of plant conservation, the biology of native plant seeds, and some of the many different research projects taking place at FWBG-BRIT behind the scenes to further support native plant conservation throughout the state. 

After the meeting, the group will head to Gabriela & Sofia's Tex-Mex for dinner and/or drinks. 10455 N Central Expressway, Suite #117, Dallas

If you can't attend in person: Zoom link.