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 […]
Photo: Courtesy of Plant NOVA Natives Why Native Plants? Naturally beautiful! Native plants will add beauty to your garden. Not convinced? Made for here! Native plants are adapted to local conditions. Planted in the right place, native plants need less water and other care than our non-native lawns. Good for the Earth! Unlike non-native plants such as turfgrass, native […]
Photo: Plant NOVA Natives Article by Plant NOVA Natives Our woodlands and meadows are about to awaken and burst into a vibrant display of spring ephemerals, the transient native beauties we love to see, especially after the cold and snowy days of winter. They are among the first spring plants to emerge and are indeed […]
Photo: Dan Schwartz Thursday, April 10, 2025 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Via ZOOM Free – REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED Dan Schwartz is a Soil Scientist with the Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District. He is a member of the soil survey update team and provides soil information to the public and agency staff. He also helps […]
Image: citynaturechallenge.org, Washington DC metro area Friday, April 25 – Monday April 28, 2025 take photos of wild plants and animals Tuesday, April 29 – Sunday, May 4, 2025 identification of what was found Do you like observing nature? Make your observations count! The City Nature Challenge is an adventure in metropolitan areas worldwide to discover […]