For 2022, Region 2 Outstanding Volunteers winners were our very own Alicia Cavazos and Susan Upton.
Category: The Chachalaca
The Chachalaca is the newsletter for the Rio Grande Valley Chapter – Texas Master Naturalist.
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Thanks to the authors and contributors to the Spring 2023 issue of The Chachalaca.
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When biology instructors teach taxonomy they delve into the how and why of classifying, or naming living things. At first glance this may be perceived as a simple task. It should be a straightforward task to tell one organism from another. In some cases, yes… in some cases, no.
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RGVC Leadership Team.
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“Who knows what this is?” asks Eileen Mattei, Rio Grande Valley Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist, as she displays a raptor’s leg and talons to a group of grade school students at Estero Llano Grande State Park in Weslaco, on the last cold day (hopefully) of winter.
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We are fortunate to know some caring people in the birdwatcher world. As I told them, I have a canoe and kayak, but like the dog that chases squirrels, I wouldn’t know what to do once I got there.