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With half the year gone, and in spite of COVID-19, Mid-Coast Chapter Texas Master Naturalists have performed 4,086 hours of training and service in 2020, at a value to their communities of $93,978.00. See the numbers for June 2020, and since chapter beginning…

Mid-Coast Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist

Here in the Coastal Bend, the eastern ecozone meets the western, the Gulf of Mexico meets the Coastal Prairies, and the Live Oak Savannah of east Texas meets the Tamaulipan Thorn Scrub of south Texas. We are at the heart of the Central Flyway for migratory birds and butterflies, where flocks fuel up for their fall trip to Central America and resupply on their spring trip back north. This confluence of ecologies creates an area of great biodiversity in which Mid-Coast Chapter Texas Master Naturalists learn, volunteer, and play.

Green anole on Pride of Barbados - join button

Fiery skipper butterfly - volunteer button

— From Our Postings —

Four Afternoons at Linda Castro Sanctuary

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Volunteers prepare the net to capture red knots.

Volunteering for Red Knots

For non-birders, a Red Knot is a small shorebird. It breeds in the Arctic, and can winter as far south

Fennessey Vegetation Survey

MCTMN'ers have been working with the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve since 2009 to survey vegetation on the Fennessey Ranch

Our Mission:
To develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide education, outreach, and service dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas within their communities.

Membership in the Mid-Coast Chapter Texas Master Naturalist
is open to qualifying individuals regardless of socioeconomic level, race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin.