Photo: FMN Jerry Nissley David Gorsline For the past 25+ years, I have participated in a program of monitoring nest boxes for Wood Ducks and Hooded Mergansers in Huntley Meadows Park. Our team monitors 16 boxes in the park’s wetlands. We are the people with the big boots and sticks, because almost all of the boxes […]
With its new Community Science Fellowship program, Thriving Earth Exchange is ready to support more communities than ever before! Please take a moment to share this opportunity with a colleague: Would you like to work with a scientist to advance a priority in your community? If you have time and community buy-in, Thriving Earth Exchange […]
Fairfax County Stormwater division is seeking plant-knowledgeable volunteers (on a one-off or recurring basis) to help thin/weed native plant gardens installed on school properties around the county through their “Revitalize, Restore, Replant! (R3) program“. Each school’s garden has been documented with the species planted, and your skill comes in to help remove plants that aren’t those desirable […]
HABITAT is a two-year Smithsonian-wide exhibition exploring one big idea: Protecting habitats protects life. Here are the 14 exhibits: Sheltering Branches Life Underground Dead Wood Is Life We Need You! Nests Bug B&B Biomes: Life in the Balance Key to the Forest Sign of the Dragonfly Foundation of the Sea Homes Monarchs on the Move […]
July 20, 2019 7:30 am – 11:00 am (MD) Join Brookside Gardens, Latino Outdoors, Latino Health Initiative and Montgomery County Councilmember Gabe Albornoz in celebrating Latino Conservation Week at the Second Annual Healthy Parks, Healthy People 5k Fun Run/Walk! Full details here
Thursday, July 18th 5:30-7:30pm Historic Earth Conservation Corps Pumphouse Join the GSDC Board of Directors for a summer evening of networking and celebration on the Anacostia River. Capital Nature is a proud member of the Green Spaces for DC (GSDC) alliance of organizations that support healthy and accessible green areas for the Washington DC area. […]
Photo by Barbara J. Saffir “Art Director” needed – Some concepts are expressed better with art than with photos or words. If you would like to coordinate the work of artists who might enjoy donating artistic interpretations for the PNN website and other purposes of things like “Baby birds need insects, and insects need native […]
Photo by Ana Ka’ahanui Margaret Fisher A commitment to stewardship of the Earth has a spiritual foundation in most faith communities. In recent years, many have come to understand that their responsibility for nature begins at home, at their places of worship. The true residents of churches, temples and mosques are not the humans using […]
Jerry Nissley I recently attended a family reunion at my cousin’s restored farm house in Southampton County, Virginia. Standing sentinel to the house is a massive eastern white oak (Quercus alba) dramatically adorned with resurrection fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides). I was taken with this newly discovered (if only to me) fern and later sat down to […]
Butterfly Class: An Introduction July 18 7:00-8:30 PM Reston, VA Vernon Walker Nature Center Butterfly count July 20 Discover the colorful and diverse lives of Reston’s “flying flowers.” Learn how to identify Reston’s common butterflies and get a basic introduction to their life history. This class is a great way to prepare for the Reston […]