Longleaf Ridge Texas Master Naturalists's Boletim

The Longleaf Ridge chapter of Texas Master Naturalists began in September conducting bioblitzes on the Third Saturday of each month with a mission of documenting every living species in Jasper and Newton Counties. With that goal in mind, this project should go on for the foreseeable future! For now we are alternating between Siecke State Forest in Newton County and Boykin Springs in Jasper County.

During the October 15 outing, we documented Southern Whitetop (Doellingeria sericocarpoides), a Twelve-spotted Skimmer and a Variegated Fritillary. None had previously been documented on iNat for our two counties.

If anyone would like to join us, let me know. We need experts in grasses, moths, and just about everything to help us find what we're missing!