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Smarter Water

for North Texas

The Alliance offers a pertinent, upbeat program about your water future!

Click HERE for more info.

Rachel Virden Hulscher

Outreach Program

Click HERE to learn more about

our outreach programs.

 Eastfield College 

Watch Eastfield Science Club

students teach 4th and 5th graders

how to do the Water Cycle Boogie.

Watch the Water Cycle Boogie  VIDEO

 

 

Texas Conservation Alliance's

Annual Meeting was a huge success!!

     Texas Conservation Alliance celebrated it's annual meeting on September 24, 2011, at Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas, TX.

Click here to view photos of the Annual Meeting

 

Conservation Hero of the Year

     Texas Conservation Alliance is proud to recognize an exceptional Texan, David Todd, as our Conservation Hero of the Year! David has a lifelong record of dedication to conservation and enthusiastically supports current efforts for priarie land preservation, restoration, and dvelopment in the Houston area. He has led the way in construction of the Texas Legacy  Project, earned a Lone Star Land Steward award, and helped found the Texas Environmental Grant Group.

Click here to read more about David Todd

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From left to right, Craig Thompson, Mack Turner, Genie Fritz, Janice Bezanson, Michael Banks, and Larry Schweiger at the award ceremony in Washington, D.C.

 

Texas Conservation Alliance awarded

Affiliate of the Year

Texas Conservation Alliance was nationally recognized

as Affiliate of the Year by National Wildlife Federation at

NWF's 75th Anniversary gala in Washington, D.C.

Click here to view photos from the Award Ceremony

 

 Texas Conservation Alliance has Booksbooks related to        

many of our projects. 

 

Check out the Book list HERE

Upcoming Events Calendar

 
Member organization volunteers and executive director, Janice Bezanson, at the Texas Conservation Alliance booth at Earth Day Dallas 2011.

 

Earth Day Dallas 2011

 

     The Texas Conservation Alliance booth at Earth Day Dallas

drew large crowds over the two-day event.  Thank you to all of

the volunteers and Alliance member organizations

who joined in celebrating Earth Day!!

Click here to view photos of Earth Day Dallas

 

 

 February 2012

 Texas Hunt Fish - Feb. 4, 9am-5pm

 Lake Arrowhead State Park - Wichita Falls

 Robert.Ramirez@tpwd.state.tx.us

 Junior Acheivement of Tyler - Feb. 16-19

 22nd Annual Bowl-A-Thon

 Green Acres Bowl in Tyler

 Contact jimguay@jatyler.org for more info

 Native Plant Society of Texas - Feb. 25-26

 Spring Symposium - Austin

 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

 Call 830-997-9272

 March 2012

 Houston Canoe Club - March 3, 8am-5pm

 San Marcos Cleanup - Free Camping

 Protect TX Rivers - March 3

 27th Annual Great TX River Cleanup

 Call Tom Goynes at 512-392-6171

 Cullinan Park Photo Contest - Ending March 20

 Free Photo Contest - Houston Area

 Click for OFFICIAL RULES

 Texas Land Conservancy - March 30

 74th Annual Dogwood Trails Festival

 Ivy Payne Wildlife Refuge - Elkhart

 Call Gloria McElroy at 903-764-2605

 

 

Conservation Hero of the Year Award

Presented to Mark Dudley and Cathy & Leonard Cox,

Of Guardians of the Navasota.

     At the 2010 Annual Meeting, the Alliance presented the Conservation Hero of the Year Award to Mark Dudley and to Cathy and Leonard Cox (pictured here with daughter Alice), for their terrific work protecting the Navasota River. Congratulations to all 500 members of Guardians of the Navasota River for convincing the regional water planning groups to remove Millican Reservoir from the 2011 Water Plan!

 

 

The Texas Legacy Project

     David Todd, board member and co-editor of The Texas Legacy Project: Stories of Conservation and Courage, presents a beautifully framed book cover to Genie Fritz at the Annual Meeting. David dedicated the book to the founder of Texas Conservation Alliance, Ned Fritz. The book gives excerpts from 60 interviews of Texas conservationists, part of a statewide project to preserve the oral history of people who made a difference in Texas conservation. Ned Fritz was the first person David had the privilege of documenting.

 

 

 

Conservation Hero of the Year

Dr. Adrian Van Dellen

Retired Military Veterinarian and Pathologist... Avid Outdoorsman... Canoeist... Conservationist... Author... Acclaimed Photographer... Nature Guide... and Volunteer Extraordinaire!

 

 

2009 Ned & Genie Fritz

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Genie Fritz, widow of conservation great Edward C. "Ned" Fritz, presents their prestigious award to Larry Shelton and Janice Bezanson at

the 30th Annual Texas Wilderness Pow Pow.