Spotting Spotted Salamanders at Night 

For more about how Virginia Master Naturalists are contributing to vernal pool monitoring and salamander conservation (as well as the work of local conservation photographer Steven David Johnson), see the feature in this month’s issue of Virginia Wildlife, a publication of the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. Walking carefully among the undergrowth and dodging greenbriers…

Chestnut planting with The American Chestnut Foundation

On February 19, Rob Beaton and Wick Fary joined members of the Rivanna Chapter and American Chestnut Foundation staff and volunteers at the Virginia Department of Forestry Crimora Nursery, to plant some 800 stratified chestnut seeds.  The Virginia Chapter of TACF maintains a greenhouse at the nursery, where select hand-pollinated seedlings are grown for a year before…