The Clive Runnells Family Mad Island March Preserve is situated on West Matagorda Bay off FM 1095 in Matagorda County, southeast of Collegeport. Check out the Mad Island website. Clive Runnells Family Mad Island Marsh Preserve is a Mid-Coast TMN partner - volunteer activities are approved for TMN hours.
Click here for a map to Mad Island. Scroll down in the page that opens and click on the detail map for a closer view of the roads to take. Click Directions for written driving instructions. The gate is locked. Call Cathy Wakefield at 361-972-3295 to get in.
New Volunteer Opportunity
Get up close and personal with some of our feathered friends! Chris Frey, a researcher from Stephen F. Austin working at Mad Island, has asked for 6 to 10 individuals to help herd birds into mist nets, perform assessments, and record data. We will be tramping across native grassland. This is a challenging traverse which can be marshy and inhabited with mosquitoes. Interested individuals should come prepared to spend several hours in the field.
We will be assisting him on Saturday, February 14 and on another day sometime between now and the end of March. Newly renovated overnight accommodations are available at Mad Island. So come, have dinner, and spend the night.
If you are interested, please contact Brigid Berger, brigidberger@comcast.net or 713-825-1929
Education
Volunteer to help with
fresh-water and salt-water marsh ecology education. Contact Cathy
Wakefield
at 361-972-3295 or
cwakefield@tnc.org
to
volunteer or find out more.
Currently scheduled:
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March 20 |
Feathered Friends |
Birding |
8:00 am |
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Apr 3 |
El Campo 3rd |
Wetlands |
9:15 am |
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Apr 8 |
El Campo 3rd |
Wetlands |
9:15 am |
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Apr 15 |
El Campo 3rd |
Wetlands |
9:15 am |
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Apr 17 |
Feathered Friends |
Birding |
8:00 am |
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Apr 21 |
Lutheran South |
Habitats |
9:00 am |
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Apr 22 |
Lutheran South |
Habitats |
9:00 am |
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Apr 28 |
Lutheran South |
Habitats |
9:00 am |
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Apr 29 |
Lutheran South |
Habitats |
9:00 am |
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Apr 30 |
So Plains College |
Habitats |
3:00 pm |
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May 1 |
So Plains College |
Habitats |
8:00 am |
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May 2 |
So Plains College |
Wetlands |
8:30 am |
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May 2 |
Mid-Coast TMN |
Wetlands |
8:30 am |
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May 4 |
El Campo 3rd |
Wetlands |
9:15 am |
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May 5 |
Lutheran South |
Habitats |
9:00 am |
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May 7 |
Migration Celebration |
ANWR |
9:00 am |
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May 11 |
El Campo 3rd |
Wetlands |
9:15 am |
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May 14 |
Diboll JH |
Wetlands |
9:00 am |
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May 15 |
Feathered Friends |
Birding |
8:00 am |
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May 22 |
El Campo 3rd |
Wetlands |
9:15 am |
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Jun 10 |
ACH workshop |
Habitats |
8:00 am |
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Jun 11 |
ACH workshop |
TSMEC |
8:00 am |
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Jun 12 |
ACH workshop |
Mata is |
8:00 am |
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Jun 19 |
Feathered Friends |
Birding |
8:00 am |
Want to help but think you may not know enough? Complete Curriculum Guides for the Mad Island Marsh Preserve education programs are available at: http://www.3dcoast.com/tnc_curriculum.guides/5-12.html.
Workdays 2009
Please mark your calendar and plan to join us this year! We’ll work from 9 am – 3 or 4 pm and then play & enjoy a communal dinner. Newly renovated overnight accommodations are available at Mad Island, so come and spend the night! Hope to see you this season! ~Brigid Berger
March 14
April 4
May 9
For more information,
directions, or to volunteer, please contact Brigid Berger
at
brigidberger@comcast.net
or 713-825-1929.