Photo by Melanie Choukas-Bradley Friday, December 4, 202012 – 1:15 pmOnline eventRegister here. Explore Washington DC’s beautiful and wild Theodore Roosevelt Island with renowned naturalist Melanie Choukas-Bradley and Capital Nature. Who knew that a kingfisher and Theodore Roosevelt island would be the antidote to a year full of disappointments? After the unexpected and surreal outcome […]
Photo courtesy of audubonva.org Sunday, December 6, 20202 pmRegister here.Note: This training is for those interested in volunteering as Ambassadors, not a program for those wanting to learn how to landscape with native plants in their own yards. Tami Sheiffer, Audubon at Home Coordinator for Fairfax County, will be holding virtual training for new volunteers […]
Photos and article courtesy of Valeria Espinoza, Volunteer Coordinator Marilyn Kupetz (right, in feature photo) Marilyn has volunteered at Riverbend for almost two years now. She serves as an Animal Caretaker and Roving Naturalist. Marilyn plays a key role as part of our Animal Care team. From enrichment to health monitoring, Marilyn helps us make […]
Presented and recorded by Clifton Institute This talk is intended for community/citizen scientists who help collect data but may not have the knowledge they need to analyze it, for nature journalers who record numbers in their journals but aren’t sure what to do with them, and anyone else who is curious about how scientists use […]
Photo by J. Quinn Article by Jim McGlone, Urban Forest Conservationist, Virginia Department of Forestry In 2010, the courts determined that the EPA and its partners in the Chesapeake Bay watershed had not made sufficient progress in improving Bay water quality with voluntary measures and ordered the EPA to begin regulatory measures to clean up […]
Saturday, November 21, 20209 am – 5:30 pmOn FaceBook LivePublic welcome! Join the Virginia Herpetological Society on Facebook Live for presentations by speakers from Virginia as well as internationally-renowed herpetologists. Topics include “Snakes of Costa Rica,” “History of Antivenom in the United States,” and “Virginia Herpetology: 2020 in review.” Full schedule and speakers’ bios here.
Photo courtesy of VNPS Sunday, November 15, 20201 pmRegister here. Join the Virginia Native Plant Society (Potowmack Chapter) for their annual meeting. The speaker at the event will be Dr. Andrea Weeks of George Mason University. She will be discussing her research project, Recovering Native Plant Diversity in the Piedmont, that aims to initiate a […]
Photo from Friends of Mason Neck State Park Sunday, December 6, 20202 pmWebinar$5 per familyRegister here. Swanfall, the Friends of Mason Neck State Park‘s annual holiday celebration that traditionally is held at the Jammes House in the Park, will be held online. Erin Thady, a Wildlife Biologist with Fairfax County, will entertain and inform with […]
Photo from Purple Martin Initiative Saturday, November 14, 20209-10:30 am Grab the breakfast of your choice and pull up your comfy chair to your computer to hear from Michael Bishop, who founded the Initiative in the mid-2010s to build awareness of these feather friends. Since then, he has worked to promote the beauty and benefits […]
Photo and article by Marissa Guill, graduate student, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech The fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) is the largest species of tree squirrel native to the United States. In Virginia, fox squirrel populations are still present in the Delmarva Peninsula and west of the Piedmont into the Appalachians. However east […]