Certified and Dedicated!

On Saturday, August 16, the Headwaters Master Naturalists (HMN) celebrated the culmination of a year’s efforts in transforming landscaping around the Wildlife Center of Virginia into wildlife-friendly habitat … including informative signage and demonstration nest boxes on the path leading to this nationally renowned wildlife hospital in Waynesboro. The Wildlife Habitat Garden ribbon cutting event…

Water Monitoring Projects

Members of the Headwaters Chapter are involved with three different water monitoring projects, each using different methods and organizational collaborations, but with the common goal of protecting our area water resources. Headwaters Chapter Adviser and Fisheries Biologist Paul Bugas and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries play supportive roles in all these efforts.…

Forest Campsite Cleanup Success!

Headwaters’ second cleanup in the George Washington National Forest was again a huge success. Several members – Adrie, Sandy, Gretchen, Ann, Judy, RoxAnna, and Tom – met at Todd Lake about 8:30 a.m. on July 14. Rangers had provided large trash bags and the weather was splendid for outside work and activities. There are about…

Counting Butterflies

Imagine you are a butterfly.  You love the hottest days with the most humidity so your wings can be warmed as you spend your days looking to mate before you forever fly away.  Butterfly Counters have to contend with those hot humid days to see the most butterflies.  And as cool morning air changes to…