The Elm Fork Chapter Texas Master Naturalists’ new 2024 class made their annual field trip to LLELA. Marissa Shaw, Field Trip Coordinator, filed this report:
What a wonderful day it was at LLELA yesterday. Our Class of TMN- EFC 2024 were very impressed! Your team pulled together and did a fabulous job of presenting LLELA in all of its beauty and benefits.
Scott Kiester did an outstanding job of kicking off the day with the history of LLELA and leading our lunch speaker presentations. The class loved every minute with Rita Lokie at the Nature Center, Education Center, the Cicada Pavillion (learning to ID macroinvertebrates and what we learn from them about our water health), and the historical cabin.
Richard Freiheit’s Prairie tour is always impressive due to the importance of conserving, preserving and restoring such a cherished part of our land. Their passion and love of LLELA was evident to all.
We love LLELA and appreciate all of the blood, sweat and tears that go into maintaining such a magnificent piece of heaven. Please thank each and every one of them for their time, presentation and commitment to LLELA and all they do.