Past meetings, events, and newsletters for your reference.
Recent Meetings
March Club Meeting: Suzanne Tuttle's Quest to Visit all Texas State Parks
March 18, 2026, at 7:00 PM Suzanne Tuttle discussed her first project after retirement: exploring our beautiful state and visiting every Texas State Park and State Natural Area.
February Club Meeting: Seed Conservation
Kay Hankins, seed conservationist of BRIT spoke on the efforts to capture native Texas plant seeds
January Club Meeting: Wildlife of DFW
January 21, 2026 Sam Kieschnick, urban wildlife biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD), presented on some of the species found in the urban DFW ecosystem.
November Club Meeting - Program: Wendel Withrow
We welcomed back Wendel Withrow presenting a program in his series "Exploring the Great Parks". This program focused on the beautiful birds along the Texas coast, including the highly endangered Whooping Crane, and his videographic journey following them with ‘Captain Dan’.
October Club Meeting - Program: Dave Lewis, City of Fort Worth
Dave Lewis, the new City of Fort Worth Park Director. Dave discussed his vision to make our city the number 1 park system in the United States.
September Club Meeting - Program: Bats! with Dr. Tory Bennett
July Club Meeting - Program: The Creature Teacher
July 16, 2025,The Creature Teacher Colton presented information about and showed their very special animals. They will showcased 5 animals and maybe a scaly reptile & a few large insects!
June Club Meeting - Program: "Mindfulness in Texas Nature"
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 7:00 PM at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden as we host local writer and naturalist Michael Smith who will discuss his newest book: "Mindfulness in Texas Nature". (He’ll have copies on hand for purchase as well).
May Club Meeting - Program: "Liveable Arlington: Faces of Fracking
May 21, 2025, at 7:00 PM at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden to watched the film: "Faces of Fracking" introduced and discussed by Ranjana Bhandari, founder of Liveable Arlington. Faces of Fracking is a six-part short documentary series, directed by award-winning filmmaker Michael Rowley, that profiles individuals whose lives have been deeply and negatively affected by fracking operations in Arlington, Texas, shining a light on the human toll of natural gas extraction in urban environments.
April Club Meeting - Program: "Greenspace Initiatives for Fort Worth"
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Allison Docker, Greenspace Initiatives Manager for the City of Fort Worth, discussed her plan to advance a vision for exciting and vibrant green spaces that serve the City of Fort Worth and surrounding communities
.March Club Meeting - Program: "Zero Waste Textile Initiative: ZWTI"
Wednesday, March 19, 2025, heard University of North Texas (UNT) program manager, Rosalyn Zuniga, discuss the sustainability initiative geared towards the collection and redirection of textiles from landfills through creative reuse, recycling, donation, and swap events.
February Club Meeting .... Program topic: TRWD Education
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 7:00 PM on ZOOM (no in-person meeting). Our guest speaker was Betsy Marsh, an environmental educator with the Tarrant Regional Water District, speaking of opportunities and techniques for reaching and inspiring the next generation of water champions.
January 2025 topic: Trinity Metro Bikes
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, Our guest speaker, Shawn Tubre, director of Trinity Metro Bikes, discussed the relaunching of Trinity Metro Bikes now that they have teamed up with Lyft for more bikes in new & strategic locations.