South Texas Border Chapter
Texas Master Naturalist

Our Chapter offers speakers for non-political events and meetings as part of our education and outreach mission.  Most presentations are approximately one hour, but many can be adjusted as needed.  For in-person presentations, the Chapter is able to provide a projector and computer if you do not have one, but the facility must provide a surface upon which the presentation can be projected and power for the projector.  The facility must also provide any microphone and amplification system if one is required.

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Presentations available include:

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• Astronomy

• Barnacles

• Bats: Importance & Preservation

• Beach Combing

• Bird Banding in the RGV

• Bring on the Birds with Native Plants

• Bringing Butterflies and Birds to your Landscape

• Butterflies & Moths in the RGV

• Butterfly & Pollinator Gardens

• Climate Change

• Common Native Shrubs & Trees

• Coral

• Creatures of the Night

• Dark Sky Initiative: Why & How you Can Help

• Don't Kill It 'Til You Know What it is

• Effective Presentations: Ho-Hum to Hooray

• Fighting the Drought

• Gardening for Bats

• Living with the Natural World

• Marine Life

• Milkweed Monarchs & Their Kin

• Native & Adapted Landscape Plants

• Native Bees

• Native Plants

• Native Plants to Attract Butterflies and Birds

• Native Pollinator Plants

• Native Trees

• Native Trees for Year-long Blooms

• Nectar and Pollinator Garden for Butterflies and Hummingbirds

• No Lifeguard on Duty: Climate Change…

• Plants for Year-round Nectar

• Preserving Monarchs: Why & How?

• Purple Martins: Importance & Preservation

• Shells & Corals of the RGV Coast

• Six Herbs from My Garden (not native)

• Small Garden for Year Long Nectar

• Spiders of the RGV - Spooky Spiders

• Sustainability

• Texas Water – Them’s Fighting Words

• Texas Water Rights – and Wrongs

• The Passion Vine Diaries

• Urban Canopy & Importance of Native Plants

• Urbanization and Landscaping Sucks (Water)

• What the Tides Brought in

• When the Big One Hits - An Illustrated Hurricane Primer

• Wiggle Friends – Worms & Caterpillars (ages 4-6)

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If you are a member of the STBCTMN and have a topic for a presentation you'd like to add to our Speaker's Bureau and share with others, please let us know through this form as well.