Enhancing the Marl Creek Trail Riparian Buffer Volunteer Opportunity Saturday, March 5, 2022 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM McCormick Farm, 128 Cyrus McCormick Circle, Raphine, VA 24472 Planting trees and maintaining the Marl Creek Trail at McCormick Farm (Shenandoah Valley Agriculture Research and Extension Center) in Raphine, has been an annual project since our…
Cindy Westley recently transferred to the Headwaters Chapter from the Rivanna Chapter next door to us. To help introduce her to Chapter members, HMN Stephanie Gardner corresponded with Cindy to find out a bit about her and her work with the Master Naturalists program: How long have you been involved in the Virginia Master Naturalists…
Master Naturalists Volunteer with the American Chestnut Foundation On February 3 and 4, Headwaters Master Naturalist volunteers joined up with Rivanna Chapter VMNs and members of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) to sow chestnuts at the Virginia Department of Forestry’s Center in Crimora. The TACF organizers were happily surprised with the total number of volunteers…
August 2018 photo of the Bird and Wildlife Trail sign at Silver Lake. Since then the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has been renamed the VA Department of Wildlife Resources and the Birding and Wildlife Trail program has dropped the “ing” in Birding to become the Bird and Wildlife Trail. A big “Thank…
Bird and Wildlife Trail Monitoring Project Background and Update for Headwaters Master Naturalists 2022 From project coordinator Sandy Greene What’s Not To Like? It’s an approved project statewide, with our HMN chapter an early adopter of our three loops in Augusta and Rockingham Counties. The goals of the 2004 project, the first statewide program of…
Virginia Master Naturalists Headwaters Chapter 