Entries by Janet Quinn

“Trees to Products” Environmental Education Conference, July 8-11

Best Western 124 Woodland Dr SW, Wise, VA 24293 Monday 8 July-Thursday 11 July 2019 The Trees to Products teachers’ program is designed to provide teachers with factual and credible information about Virginia’s hardwood forests. These concepts are linked to the Virginia Standards of Learning and provide training in Project Learning Tree activities. A variety […]

Nationwide casting call for wildlife experts

Have you built your life around animal wildlife? Have you lived or visited ecosystems to study or take care of wild animals? Do you want to share your adventures about your encounters with animals? Do you understand the behaviors of wildlife? Do you want to be on TV? A major network is developing a series […]

Marine birds and mammals of the Southeastern United States pelagic trip, July 6th

Outer Banks, NC Saturday, 6 July 2019 All day Fee: $175 (includes gratuity, participants are responsible for accommodation) In an earlier post, Audubon Society of Northern Virginia advertised a two-part workshop on marine birds and mammals of the Southeastern United States.  There is no requirement to take these workshops to attend the field trip, however […]

Learn to be a dragonfly surveyor & collector, May 18th

Photo (c) by Barbara J. Saffir Riverbend Park 8700 Potomac Hills St., Great Falls VA Saturday, 18 May 2019 Participate in a long term citizen’s science project monitoring dragonfly species that live in and around the Potomac River above Great Falls. Learn the protocols for collecting exuviae (shed skins) that dragonfly larvae leave behind when […]

Meadow Restoration Day! May 11th

8814 Jeffery Road Great Falls, VA Saturday, 11 May 2019 2-3:30 pm Join Resource Naturalists Christian Lansing & Nancy Wimberg for a habitat restoration project to help restore the meadow habitat and help native plants, wildlife, birds, and important pollinators thrive by keeping the invasive vine “mile a minute” OUT of Riverbend Park! Learn how […]