Photo: Courtesy of the Fairfax County Park Authority When: Saturday, 04/09/2022 10:00-11:30AM Where: Ellanor C. Lawrence Park 5040 Walney Road Chantilly, VA, 20151 Map of Ellanor C. Lawrence Park Cost: $8.00 Click here for more information. Register Online. Event Description: Identify some Fairfax County’s common invasive plant species. Explore ways to lessen these plants around […]
Photo: Courtesy of the Fairfax County Park Authority When: Wednesday, 3/19/2022 6:45-8:15PM Where: HUNTLEY MEADOWS LOCATION 3701 Lockheed Blvd. Alexandria, VA, Map of Huntley Meadows Park Cost: $9.00 Click here for more information. Register Online. Event Description: Come for an evening walk through the woods to one of the park’s large meadows. Listen for the call […]
Photo: Courtesy of the Fairfax County Park Authority Evening Woodcock Walk When: Wednesday, 3/02/2022 5:30-7:00PM Where: HUNTLEY MEADOWS LOCATION 3701 Lockheed Blvd. Alexandria, VA, Map of Huntley Meadows Park Cost: $9.00 Click here for more information. Register Online. Event Description: Take an evening stroll through the forest to one of the park’s largest meadows. Listen for the […]
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 […]