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Student Conservation Team Gets Their Hands Dirty!
August 14, 2014
Most teenagers probably wouldn’t look forward to spending their highly coveted summer days working outside and digging their hands in the dirt. But the ambitious young people from the Student Conservation Association are not most teens. These students are passionate about…
Visitors get Batty at Wine, Cheese & Bats!
August 11, 2014
In addition to a whole new appreciation for bats, attendees to Wine, Cheese & Bats discovered that learning is still cool. With wine in hand we loaded our plates with a variety of wonderful cheese, fruits, crackers, cookies and snacks, before entering the classroom. Once seated we were provided a brief and very interesting….
Museum Takes a Cast of our Post Oak
August 4, 2014
As you walked west of our Nature Center building on the Alice Brown Loop, the chemical smell of acetone could be detected in the summer air. As you approached one of our tall post oak trees off the trail you saw six or seven members of the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s exhibits team gently patting a thick, white substance on its bark…