Chapter Members, your 2026-2027 ballot is “in the mail”

Ballots for the NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter officer election were emailed directly to current chapter members on June 20 and June 21, using the email addresses on file with the Societyโ€™s state office. (If the record for an address shows a person has declined to receive NPSOT email, that address was not included in the bulk email.)ย 

If you do not see the ballot email in your inbox, please check your spam folder.  If you still do not see your ballot email, please contact the NPSOT-Wilco webmaster using this form.

As announced at our June chapter meeting and in a blog post, the online election is underway for chapter officers to serve from September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027. Only Williamson County Chapter members are eligible to vote.ย  Election results will be announced at the chapter meeting on July 9, 2026.

See the full announcement in this blog post.

Schedule Recap:
June 11 โ€“ Nominations for elected offices open and initial slate announced at chapter meeting and in a June 12 blog post
June 18 โ€“ Nominations for elected offices close
June 20-21 โ€“ Ballot emailed to chapter members
June 21 – Blog post to alert members
July 4 โ€“ Last day to vote
July 9 โ€“ Election results announced at chapter meeting
Sept 1 โ€“ New board term begins

Recording available for June 11’s “Party in the Prickly Pear” with Becky Roe

The video recording from June 11, 2026’s guest presentation is now available on our YouTube channel. The presentation begins at 06:55 into the video, after a short business meeting.

With her kind permission, here is a link to Becky’s slides.


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Business slides for recent chapter meetings are here, listed by date. (If this particular meetingโ€™s business slides were not added yet, they will be soon. Please check back later.)

NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public. We hope you attend!  Meetings may be in person, virtual, or both, so be sure to check details in the meeting announcement. Meetings are announced on our website, our calendar and Facebook.

Register for July 18’s “From Balconies to Backyards”

News from The Good Water Master Naturalist Chapter:

The Good Water Master Naturalist Chapter is excited to invite the public to our upcoming nature and conservation event, โ€œFrom Balconies to Backyards 2026: Taking Care of What You Haveโ€ on Saturday, July 18, 2026. Registration is open to all. Attend in-person or virtually.

The event features keynote speaker John Hart Asher who serves as host of the award winning and nationally syndicated PBS show, Central Texas Gardener. With his presentation titled โ€œBe the Bison,โ€ John will speak about his experience with ecological restoration and discuss pocket prairies as an example of a way that central Texans (and beyond) can drastically increase biodiversity to the benefit of all. Components of the pocket prairie strategy can be applied at multiple scales (think balcony, flower bed, or ranch) and heโ€™ll happily answer any questions for folks who want to help Be the Bison.

Click this link to register => https://txmn.org/goodwater/from-balconies-to-backyards-2026/

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(NPSOT Note: John Hart Asher was the guest speaker at our NPSOT-Wilco chapter meeting on November 13, 2025.)