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sábado, 03 de marzo de 2018

NATURE JOURNALING

Monday – March 26, 2018
NATURE JOURNALING

Location: First United Methodist Church
505 W. Marvin Ave., Waxahachie, TX
Family Life Center - Gathering Room

Indian Trail Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist
· 6:00 PM - Business Meeting
· 7:00 PM - Program by Walt Davis – Natural History Museum Director and Curator, retired

Walt Davis, a lifelong professional in the field of natural history and science, will speak on “Nature Journaling” and the way it sharpens our powers of observation of natural phenomena.

Walt Davis began his career as a summer intern at the Dallas Museum of Natural History in 1959. After graduation from the University of Texas with a degree in zoology and a stint at DMNH as curator of vertebrate collections, Walt earned a master’s degree in wildlife science at Texas A&M University. Following a brief time at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, he returned to the Dallas museum serving as exhibits curator and assistant director for long range planning for a total of twenty-five years including project director for the Ramses the Great exhibit in 1988-89, before becoming director of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, retiring in 2004. Walt has consulted with numerous Texas museums including the Bullock Texas History Museum, Old Jail Art Museum and Witte Museum as well as the Texas Historical Commission and the Center for the Advancement of Early Texas Art. After retirement Walt and his wife – Isabel set out to circumnavigate the Lone Star State and wrote about that experience in the book Exploring the Edges of Texas published in 2010 by Texas A&M University Press. In 2016 he published a history of the Dallas Museum of Natural History entitle An Ark for Texas: The Evolution of a Natural History Museum.

Indian Trail Chapter is part of the statewide Texas Master Naturalist Volunteer Program of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

The 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 for the State of Texas.

This program is part of a series of “no cost” “open to the public” Master Naturalist programs offered the fourth Monday (generally) of each month, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Please bring a friend! For more information, please call the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension at 972-825-5175 or email: information@itmnc.com

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