Outdoor Cats and Nature

Domestic cats are amazing animals! But cats and nature don't always mix well. Join Sam Kieschnick, Urban Biologist with Texas Park and Wildlife Department, and Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center for a discussion about how we, cats, wildlife, and humans, can all live together successfully.

Sam Kieschnick is an urban wildlife biologist with TPWD serving the east side of the DFW metroplex. He previously worked as a nature educator with the City of Mansfield at Oliver Nature Park, as a naturalist at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, as a science interpreter with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, as a botanist with BRIT, and as an instructor at Weatherford College. He has a master’s degree from Tarleton State University studying the genetics of pocket gophers. As an urban wildlife biologist, Sam’s focus will be on three a’s: awareness, appreciation, and action.

Host or Publisher Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center