Adam Christie has big plans for the Mount Joy Pond Natural Area Preserve. Adam is the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Natural Heritage Program’s Shenandoah Valley Region Steward and the Mount Joy Pond Preserve, near Raphine, VA, is one of nine preserves in his territory. He admits to it being his pet project. On…
The Headwaters Chapter 2015 Basic Training Class participated in a field trip along the Dowells Draft and Chimney Hollow trails in the George Washington National Forest, on July 29, led by “field naturalist and muddy boots plant ecologist” Eric Jones. He is the author of Wildflowers of Augusta County VA. Notes and photos contributed by…
In mid May, the Headwaters Master Naturalist training class was introduced to the Center for Coldwaters Restoration (CCR) exhibit show room for a sampling of what promises to be a world class facility in downtown Waynesboro. The Center for Coldwaters Restoration, an idea home-grown in Waynesboro, is all about the natural world (ecology) of the…
Two members of the 2015 basic training class were joined by a few other chapter members for a wildflower-focused walk around the Hone Quarry Recreation Area with Headwaters Master Naturalist and botanist Chris Bowlen on Friday morning, May 8, 2015. RoxAnna Theiss took some notes about what was presented. Elaine Smith kept a list of…
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 was – for most people just another day. But I had been looking forward to it for months. It was the day when the Headwaters Chapter Trainees-in-Waiting (TiW) were taking a special field trip to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. One of the TiW, Byron Hukee, had…
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