HI Fellow Naturalists.
The Panhandle Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists welcomes you to join us for our OPEN HOUSE this Saturday, August 5th from 1-4 PM at the Amarillo Southwest Branch Library on 45th between Bell and Coulter. Learn about the Master Naturalist Program and the training the Amarillo Chapter is offering. The fall training program includes classes from recognized experts in their field and will cover all aspects of our native ecosystems in the Panhandle.
If you can’t make it Saturday, please check out the website at www.txmn.org/pc for more information about class schedules and even a training application. There are also monthly meetings with guest speakers every month-the last Monday of the month at 7 PM at the SW Library. Those meetings are open to the public and you are welcome to attend.
I hope to hear from or meet some of you naturalists out there!

Jotol
Joanne Toler

Hi Naturalists,
I want to encourage all of the participants in Plants and Animals of the Texas Panhandle Project to also take part in the City Nature Challenge Project. This is a global project which challenges cities across the globe to compete in the number of observations made within a 4 day period.

Amarillo is one of those cities, along with Austin, Dallas-Ft Worth, Houston, El Paso, San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV). Last year, there were only 5 Texas cities competing. We finished above El Paso and LRGV. Corpus & San Antonio are new this year.

This year, in addition to overall global and state ranking of every city, the results will also be broken down by population and area. Since our population over 5 counties would put us at a disadvantage with larger metropolitan areas, this works in our favor by leveling the playing field somewhat.
The dates for this are April 26th to April 29th. You don’t have to join the project. You can make observations and they will automatically be pulled into the project if made in Potter, Randall, Carson, Armstrong and Hutchison counties. If you join the project, you will be able to see the observations and even identify species. Just go to Projects and type in City Nature Challenge 2019 and that’s it!
For those of you in Lubbock with the Plants on the Llano Estacado , bring some friends and come on up and join us in showing the rest of the state that there really is something to see out here!!
Feel free to message me if you have any questions.

Thanks and hope to see you out in the fields or your observations on inaturalist!
Joanne Toler
Aka -- jotol