On Saturday, August 12, Headwaters Master Naturalists and Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards (CATS) joined forces in Waynesboro to replace beaver cages around planted trees along the Greenway. The shaded path and breeze down by the river and enthusiasm all around made for a perfect workday.

We assisted over 50 trees including river birch, willow oak, London plane trees, cherry, sycamore, and others.

This project was the brainchild of Breyette Covington (HMN class of 2017) who lives in Waynesboro and is also a Tree Steward. It has been a dream of hers to bring both groups together to support trees in her hometown. Breyette worked with Kathy Nepote from CATS and Stephen Black (Horticulturalist for the City of Waynesboro) to make this project become a reality.

Shout out to current HMN’s trainees Lyn Holt, Robert Beaton, Bill Howe and Eunice Sill for joining us! We were also joined by Diana and David Covington who proved to be valuable and joyful assistants.

This is the first collaboration between CATS and Headwaters Master Naturalists and we look forward to more adventures in the future!

– Breyette Covington, Cohort V, August 2018

Thanks to Eunice Sill, Cohort 8, and Breyette for the photos below. Click on one to get a better view and start a slideshow.