Balcones Canyonlands Chapter
Our 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.
Guinea paper wasps, Polistes exclamans, are one of the more common paper wasps seen in Texas. They are reddish brown wasps with yellow markings, about ¾ inch in length with smoky wings. Antennae are tipped with orangish-yellow. The base of the abdomen where it joins …more
You’ve probably come across the stat at one point or another: More than 96 percent of Texas is privately owned. This makes us an outlier, especially among other big states. Alaska is more than 95 percent public, almost exactly the opposite of the case in Texas. In …more
On Saturday, March 23, biologist, Scott Rowin, of the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge (BCNWR), will give our chapter a presentation on groundbreaking research conducted on the migration and overwintering grounds of the endangered golden-cheeked warbler. This study involved capturing the warbler in mistnets and …more