Volunteer with us Saturday, December 2, from 10am-1pm as we rescue plants from a 20 acre meadow site. There is a 1/2 mile hike into the property from the parking area. You may dig plants to take for your own projects, and if you are able, you may help collect small fossils that will be used in STEM classes for children. Also, an owner representative will be onsite during the rescue taking photos. The plant list and further details can be found at the signupgenius link below.
You must be a current NPSOT member (any chapter) and at least 18 to attend. (Join NPSOT or renew here.)
Come help during a workday at the Landfill Pollinator Garden on Sunday, November 19, 2023 from 9:30am to noon. Bring boots, tools, hat, bug spray and water.
About the garden: The Pollinator Garden is a collaboration of the NPSOT-Wilco chapter, Good Water Master Naturalists, and Williamson County Waste Management, located at the entrance to the Williamson County Landfill, at the corner of FM 1660 and Landfill Roadin Hutto, TX, across from the Recycling Center. The garden includes a Monarch Waystation and is a Certified Texas Wildscape. Volunteers help maintain the garden when the collaborating organizations announce a maintenance work day. Anyone interested is invited to help!
Our field trip is open to the public. There is a park entry fee: ages 13-64 @ $4 per person; over 65 @ $2 per person.
Imagine it’s the Sunday afternoon following Thanksgiving. Are you stuffed from all the food? Tired of the relatives? Well, we have just the solution — a walk in River Ranch County Park on November 26, 2023, from 2-4:30 PM.
When you arrive at the park, proceed to the parking lot at the Interpretive Center. We’ll meet at the Trailhead to walk to the Bell Oak, one of the two large Heritage Live Oaks. It’s a gentle uphill hike there and downhill on the way back. The round trip is about a mile. Please wear long pants and closed toe shoes. A hat and sunscreen are recommended. Bring your water. After our hike, which is a loop, we will head to the Interpretive Center for a tour of the facilities.
If you are coming from the Georgetown area, due to construction in Liberty Hill, we recommend taking Ronald Reagan Blvd. Take a right onto Hero Way; and then head north on Bagdad Road (CR279) to arrive at the park on your left.
If you are coming from another direction, we recommend taking any east-west thoroughfare north of RR1431 to reach Bagdad Road (CR279).
We will have a sign at the Park Entrance and a sign at the turnoff in the park by the Interpretive Center.
We look forward to getting you off the couch and away from the house.
If you have a question, click on Contact Us to send it to the Field Trip Committee.
Escarpment Live Oak, Quercus fusiformis. River Ranch County Park, August 2020 (virtual) field trip.
