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Peter Joseph Hernandez
Suanne Pyle
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March 24, 2025
The City Nature Challenge and iNaturalist
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Speakers Peter Joseph Hernandez, City Nature Challenge Coordinator and Suanne Pyle, Curator for the Birds of Texas Nature Trackers will present at the next talk, sponsored by the Texas Master Naturalist, Hill Country Chapter in Kerrville on March 24, at 7 p.m.
The City Nature Challenge is an international collaboration to encourage people to get out into nature and share what they observe. More than 80 thousand people last year submitted 2.4 million photos of 65 thousand species worldwide. This year's four-day 'bioblitz' is scheduled for April 25-28. Our speakers at this month's meeting of the Hill Country Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program will share how easy it is to participate in this important event and how to use the iNaturalist app to take photos of what you see, identify them, and share them with others.
Hernandez has been a City Nature Challenge Coordinator since 2020 and is a member of the Alamo Area chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program, Native Plant Society of Texas-San Antonio, and Guadalupe County Master Gardeners. Since retiring as a Senior Director in the telecommunications industry in 2015, he has devoted himself to advocating for biodiversity through citizen science and iNaturalist. Pyle is a Texas Master Naturalist, South Texas Chapter, Class of 2020 graduate, a curator for the Birds of Texas Nature Trackers program, and has participated in the City Nature Challenge since 2019. A retired secondary school teacher, she loves to exercise her teaching talents in nature education.
There is no charge to attend. The talk will be held at the Guadalupe Basin Natural Resources Center, 125 Lehmann Drive, Suite 100 in Kerrville. Online attendance via Facebook livestream and Zoom are also available. If you wish to attend via Zoom, please pre-register using this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84850885770
Doors will open at 6 p.m., with light refreshments served. Starting at 6:30 p.m., the Chapter will hold its monthly business meeting, with the presentation by Peter Joseph Hernandez and Suanne Pyle to begin at 7 p.m.
The Texas Master Naturalist, Hill Country Chapter is a volunteer organization sponsored by Texas Parks and Wildlife and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. The Hill County Chapter is one of 48 Chapters in Texas and covers 10 counties: Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimbel, Mason, Menard, Real and San Saba. The Chapter invites individuals interested in joining the Chapter to visit https://txmn.org/hillcountry/for more information. Members receive comprehensive training in natural resource management specific to the Hill County and volunteer in a wide variety of community projects.
The City Nature Challenge is an international collaboration to encourage people to get out into nature and share what they observe. More than 80 thousand people last year submitted 2.4 million photos of 65 thousand species worldwide. This year's four-day 'bioblitz' is scheduled for April 25-28. Our speakers at this month's meeting of the Hill Country Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program will share how easy it is to participate in this important event and how to use the iNaturalist app to take photos of what you see, identify them, and share them with others.
Hernandez has been a City Nature Challenge Coordinator since 2020 and is a member of the Alamo Area chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program, Native Plant Society of Texas-San Antonio, and Guadalupe County Master Gardeners. Since retiring as a Senior Director in the telecommunications industry in 2015, he has devoted himself to advocating for biodiversity through citizen science and iNaturalist. Pyle is a Texas Master Naturalist, South Texas Chapter, Class of 2020 graduate, a curator for the Birds of Texas Nature Trackers program, and has participated in the City Nature Challenge since 2019. A retired secondary school teacher, she loves to exercise her teaching talents in nature education.
There is no charge to attend. The talk will be held at the Guadalupe Basin Natural Resources Center, 125 Lehmann Drive, Suite 100 in Kerrville. Online attendance via Facebook livestream and Zoom are also available. If you wish to attend via Zoom, please pre-register using this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84850885770
Doors will open at 6 p.m., with light refreshments served. Starting at 6:30 p.m., the Chapter will hold its monthly business meeting, with the presentation by Peter Joseph Hernandez and Suanne Pyle to begin at 7 p.m.
The Texas Master Naturalist, Hill Country Chapter is a volunteer organization sponsored by Texas Parks and Wildlife and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. The Hill County Chapter is one of 48 Chapters in Texas and covers 10 counties: Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimbel, Mason, Menard, Real and San Saba. The Chapter invites individuals interested in joining the Chapter to visit https://txmn.org/hillcountry/for more information. Members receive comprehensive training in natural resource management specific to the Hill County and volunteer in a wide variety of community projects.