The Outdoor Nature Club plans for the coming season at the planning meeting held in June each year. If there are programs or field trips you would like to see included, tell any officer or better yet, plan to attend the next planning meeting June 10, 2010.

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(tba= to be announced)

August

3 OG meeting:

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September

8 Botany meeting: Searching for the Wild Orchids of Texas by Joe Liggio

10 ONC meeting: Jupiter by Calvin Blakley

14 OG meeting: Birds of Trinidad by Bob Honig

19-20 LTNS visitors weekend: highway trash pickup

20 OG field trip: Big Thicket

21 Botany & NPSOT field trip: Native Plants of Briarbend park

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October

5 OG meeting: Birds of Ecuador by Gary Clark & Kathy Adams Clark

8 ONC board meeting: 7 pm

11 OG Beginning Birder field trip: Katy Prairie with Adam Wood

11 Botany & NPSOT field trip: Native plants along Mound Road

13 Botany meeting: Fabaceae, the Legume Family by Dr. Lary Brown

17 OG field trip: Palmetto State Park

24-25 LTNS visitors weekend: Hallowe'en

25 Botany & NPSOT field trip: Native Plants at Watonga Park

29-Nov 1 OG Quarterly field trip: NE Texas Greenvile, Lake Tawakoni

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November

2 OG meeting: Wingbeats Over Texas by Malcolm Mark Swan

10 Botany meeting: Ascepias Species by Flo Hannay and Insects on Native Plants by Don Verser

13 ONC meeting: canceled because community center not available

21 OG field trip: Huntsville State Park

21-22 LTNS visitors weekend: work weekend

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December

7 OG meeting: Whooping Cranes by Tonya Nix

8 Botany meeting: Flowers of the Wetland Prairie at Sheldon Lake State Park by Paul Roling

19 Houston Christmas Bird Count

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January

8 Botany: Twelfth night party at the Blakley's

11 OG meeting: tba

14 ONC meeting: Spring Creek Greenway Project by Dennis Johnton

16 LTNS visitors day: highway trash pickup

16 OG field trip: Brazos Bend State Park

31-Feb 7 OG Quarterly field trip: Washington State with Victor Emanuel Tours

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February

1 OG meeting: Birding and Bird Conservation in the English Lake District by Helen and John Baines

9 Botany meeting: The Beauty of Texas Wilflowers by Carolyn Fannon

11 ONC board meeting: 7 pm

20 OG field trip: Katy Prairie with Adam Wood

20-21 LTNS visitors weekend: highway trash pickup

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March

1 OG meeting: tba

9 Botany meeting: Dragonflies and Damselflies by John Schneider

20-21 LTNS visitors weekend:

20 OG field trip: Sheldon Lake State Park

31 ONC/Houston Audubon Joint meeting: Bringing Nature Home by Douglas Tallamy

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April

5 OG meeting: tba

9 ONC board meeting: 7 pm

10-11 LTNS visitors weekend: highway trash pickup

13 Botany meeting: Flora of the Texas Big Bend by Dr. Larry Brown

17 OG field trip: Matagorda County Birding

24-25 ONC field trip: Smith Woods in Colmesneil, Texas with property owners Charlie and Wanda Smith

29-May 2 OG Quarterly field trip: Lower Rio Grande Valley

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May

3 OG meeting: Summer birds of the Katy Prairie by Bob Honig

11 Botany meeting: The Watson Preserve of the Big Thicket by Pauline Singleton

13 ONC meeting: Spiders I Have Known by Cletus Lee

15 OG field trip: Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary
15 LTNS visitors weekend: Spring feast

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JUNE

10 ONC planning meeting: 7:00 p.m.

19 ONC field trip: LTNS to see bluebells
19-20 LTNS visitors day: highway trash pickup

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