Photo: Carolina Chickadee by Brad Imhoff/Macaulay Library When: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 2:00-3:00pm ET Where: Livestream webinar Click here for more information and registration. Event Description: Join us for a free webinar to help you make birdwatching easier and more fun—right in time for the 25th Great Backyard Bird Count. Join our experts as we brush […]
Image courtesy of the Clifton Institute When: Saturday April 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Where: This program will take place at a grassland on Raccoon Ford Road, south of Culpeper. Cost: $8 – $10 Piedmont grasslands are the most diverse plant communities in the state of Virginia. These prairies are also home to declining birds […]
This double ring of antennae was the first U.S. tracking station to compile data on the path of the Russian satellite Sputnik just five hours after its launch. Photo courtesy of Fairfax County Park Authority Secrets, Spies, Sputnik and Huntley When: Monday, 2/28/2022 2:00 pm Where: HUNTLEY MEADOWS LOCATION 3701 Lockheed Blvd. Alexandria, VA, Map of […]
Photo: Courtesy of the Fairfax County Park Authority (Green Spring Park) Virtual Winter Lecture-Lift Ev’ry Voice When: Sunday, 2/20/2022 1:30 pm Where: Green Spring Gardens 4603 Green Spring Rd. Alexandria, VA, 22312 Cost: $10.00 Click here for activity details or call 703-642-5173. Registration is online. Event Description: From sea to shining sea, Black people have […]
Photo by Rich Brager By David Fleming 21 JAN 2022 A team of Virginia Master Naturalists committed to diversity and inclusion has spent much of the year focused on finding ways to increase participation and encourage engagement between conservation volunteers and communities in the commonwealth. For their efforts in addressing these challenges of conservation work, […]
Photo courtesy of Fairfax County Park Authority A pilot project on Arley Street in Springfield is an environmental success story. With significant community initiative and modest government assistance, 4,300 square feet of asphalt in the Springfield district was converted back to green space. Community property within the Springfield Station Homeowners Association (HOA) included a deteriorated […]
Attribution of photo: Jim Harrison, CC BY 2.5, (cropped) via Wikimedia Commons E. O. Wilson was an extraordinary scholar in every sense of the word. Back in the 1980s, Milton Stetson, the chair of the biology department at the University of Delaware, told me that a scientist who makes a single seminal contribution to his or […]
Photo: Courtesy of the Fairfax County Park Authority (Ellanor C. Lawrence Park) WINTER STREAM LIFE When: Saturday, 02/12/2022 1:00 pm Where: ELLANOR C. LAWRENCE PARK LOCATION Pond Shelter 5235 Walney Road Chantilly, VA, 20151 Cost: $8 per person. Click here for activity details or call 703-631-0013. Registration is online. Event Description: Explore Walney Creek with […]
Photo by Jerry Nissley By: Mary Jane Poulter, Central Piedmont Chapter and Marilyn Parks, Fairfax Chapter At the annual Virginia Master Naturalist conference this year, a favorite activity was the chat room. The chat room was a sub-area of the conference where attendees could start discussions on topics of interest. Since the conference was virtual, […]