Photo: By FMN Jerry Nissley – Meadowlark Garden view SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025 9AM-NOON (EASTERN TIME) MUSTANG TRAILHEAD 10702 HARLEY RD, LORTON, VA 22079 The Bureau of Land Management’s Lower Potomac Field Station is proposing to develop a sensory nature trail at Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area in Lorton, VA. The proposed trail would be […]
Photo: Matt Felperin -Yellow-throated Warbler Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 7:00 am return by 4:00 pm. Walker Nature Center 11450 Glade Center Dr Reston, VA 20191 Cost: Bus transportation and any park fees, is $50 for Reston Association members and $65 for non-members. On Tuesday, May 6th, Reston’s Walker Nature Center has scheduled a trip to […]
Photo: Courtesy of City of Fairfax Government Welcome to Fairfax City’s 2025 Urban Forest Photo Contest! For Details and Submission information click here. The Urban Forest Photo Contest is an opportunity to showcase the diversity of our urban forest through the perspective of community members. Whether captured on a digital camera or your phone, we hope you’ll […]
Photo: By Ron Grimes, Northern Shoveler March 2025 Narrative by Mary Ann Bush / Photos are credited below the image. Success stories can be about a person, a community, a project, or even an event. These stories may leave us feeling inspired, motivated, impressed, or even lucky! This success story is about the amazing Huntley […]
Photo: By FMN J. Quinn, Stream monitoring Are you interested in obtaining a Virginia Save Our Streams Stream Monitoring certification? This certification is not required for the workshops, but it allows you to monitor your own site if you wish. The certification consists of three parts – watching online webinars, passing an online macroinvertebrate ID […]
Photo: Courtesy of Eagle Fest at Mason Neck State Park May 10, 2025 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Mason Neck State Park, 7301 High Point Rd., Lorton, VA 22079. Visitor Center Lawn All events for the festival are free for everyone to enjoy! Click here for additional information. Join this full day of live animal […]
A celebration of 10 years of the Fairfax County Spring Watershed Cleanup in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and Fairfax County Park Authority. It is time to come together with your community and neighbors to remove trash from your local waterways. Be a part of the solution—volunteers have removed nearly 30 tons of trash over the last decade […]
Photo: Purple Martins, Keith Kingdon/Audubon Photography Awards The new BirdCast Migration Dashboard provides summaries of radar-based measurements of nocturnal bird migration, including estimates of the total number of birds migrating, their directions, speeds, and altitudes. This tool depicts migration patterns in near real time or as a summary of a whole night after nocturnal periods end […]
Photo: Margaret Chatham, Virginia Native Plant Society – Potowmack Chapter Thursday, May 8, 2025 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Virtual Free – Registration required. Margaret Chatham will discuss larval host plants for an array of local butterflies. Margaret Chatham is a Fraser Preserve Volunteer Visitation Committee Member who removes invasive barberry shrubs in winter and wavyleaf […]
Saturday, June 7, 2025 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. This short, three-hour annual event has a massive cumulative impact. Since the event began in 1989, this Virginia tradition has engaged more than 165,500 volunteers who have removed approximately 7.18 million pounds of debris from our land and waterways. The 36th annual Clean the Chesapeake Bay Day event […]