Photo: FMN Ana Ka’ahanui, Riverbend Invasive Removal Projects @Riverbend Park Thursday June 26, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Riverbend Park Get Directions 8700 Potomac Hills St. Great Falls, VA 22066 Sign-up information Meet at the Riverbend Park Visitor Center Riverbend Park needs your help! Join Fairfax County Park Authority for an invasive removal […]
Graphic: Courtesy of Latino Outdoors DMV Saturday, June 28, 2025 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Latino Outdoors activities are free and in service to their communities REGISTRATION REQUIRED Neabsco Regional Park, 15125 Blackburn Road, Woodbridge, VA 22191 CLICK HERE FOR SPANISH VERSION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT Join participants 9am Saturday June 28th to go bird […]
Photo: Rebecca Hale (Credit: Kristen Goodhue) Tuesday, July 15, 2025 7:00pm -8:30pm Sign up on Zoom to watch live or on demand Speaker: Rebecca Hale, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) senior scientist We often think of cities in opposition to nature. But cities have a rich natural history, including many freshwater ecosystems. Urban streams and […]
Photo: David Illig, Variegated Fritillary Wednesday, June 18, 2025 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Virtual FREE Registration required The sight of butterflies fluttering around on a warm day is one of the most iconic signs of summer. These beautiful insects usually live for only a few weeks as adults, but they make quite an impression […]
Photo: Courtesy of Jane E. Ogilvie Saturday June 21, 2025 10:00am – 2:00pm FREE annual event! Location: Liberia House and Grounds 8601 Portner Avenue Manassas City Join thousands of visitors and buzz on by to have fun and learn about honeybees, native pollinators, and planting native plants at this FREE annual event! Look at the […]
Photo: Fairfax County Park Authority – Invasive vines and plants The Fairfax County Park Authority FCPA, a core member of the National Capital – Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (Nat-Cap PRISM), has been awarded a grant from the Virginia Department of Forestry. The grant, part of the FY25 Virginia PRISM Support for Invasive Species […]
Photo: Ly Le, National Park Service Saturday, July 12th, 2025 8:30 am – 12:30 PM Location: Turkey Run Park, George Washington Memorial Parkway *Exact location details will be provided following registration Please keep a lookout for registration details for the in-person, half-day workshop event on Saturday, July 12th in mid-June. Announcing Trail Care Academy‘s in-person, […]
Photo: By FMN J. Quinn, Stream monitoring Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District (NVSWCD) Spring stream monitoring season is in full swing! They hope you’ll be able to join them at one of the upcoming stream monitoring workshops. Are you interested in obtaining a Virginia Save Our Streams Stream Monitoring certification? This certification is […]
Photos: Provided by the 2025 FMN Students in the Spring FMN Basic Training Session – Riverbend Field Trip If the purpose of a field trip is to provide students with a hands-on, experiential learning opportunity outside of the classroom, then the May 5th trip to Riverbend Park was certainly a success. The park, located along the […]
Photos: Top: L-R Sam Schaen – Monarch Butterfly, Juan Gonzalez, Peck’s Skipper Bottom: L-R Photo by Ana Ka’ahanui – Halloween pennant dragonfly, Ana Ka’ahanui -Blue Dasher dragonfly Butterfly and dragonfly surveys are carried out in temperate months (April-October), normally on Friday mornings, at one of four sites ( listed below) around Occoquan Bay, all within […]