Meetings and Field Trips

Membership Meeting

Thursday, February 18, 2010

7:00 PM

Garden Center, Tyrrell Park, Beaumont

Native Plants for Birds and Yards

 Sharon Odegar

Beaumont Chapter, Native Plant Society of Texas

Sharon has been a member of the Native Plant Society of Texas since 1990, has served as President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Beaumont Chapter, and has served on the State Nominating Committee. In 2000, she received the Benny J. Simpson Fellow of the Society award. 

 A member of the Beaumont Council of Garden Clubs since 1990, Sharon served as President of the Council from 2001 to 2003, and has been an active volunteer in weeding, hauling dirt, planting plants, working in office, engraving plant names, fund raising, and organizing home and garden tours. She has been a Master Gardener since 1997, active in Orange County, and is currently completing the Texas Master Naturalist course. She was one of the first volunteers at Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, and helped to save original plants before construction began, worked in the propagation greenhouse, and helped identify native plants in the gardens.

Sharon has been a board member of Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust since 2000, and currently is serving as Secretary.

We will plan on having the doors open by about 6:00 p.m. and the program will start at 7:00 p.m. sharp.

Field Trip to Sheldon Lake

Saturday February 20, 2010

     Sheldon Lake State Park includes a large lake, which attracts many waterfowl, and well as moist wooded areas and newly restored prairie. The park entrance and Environmental Learning Center are at 15315 Beaumont Highway (Business 90) at Park Road 138 just outside the northeast section of Houston. We will meet at 8:15 a.m. inside the park near the Environmental Learning Center. Normal travel time from the Golden Triangle should be about one hour 30 minutes to one hour 40 minutes. It is about 85 miles from Beaumont, and a little further from mid and south county.

     If you approach on US 90, in Crosby, take the Beaumont Highway (Business 90, not the "main" US 90) and proceed about 5 miles to the park entrance to the right. If you reach Beltway 8 you have gone too far.

     If you prefer IH10, exit on Beltway 8 and turn north. After just under four miles cross under US 90. Go another half mile or so and turn right on Business 90 (Beaumont Highway) and proceed less than a mile to the park entrance on the left.

     The park does not open until 8:00 a.m. The park telephone number is 281-456-2800.