Photo: by Environmental Nature Center, ecenter.org   Project: Volunteer Photos for Socrates Project 2nd Edition Guide A group of VMN volunteers is looking for photos taken by other VMN volunteers (not grabbed from the internet or other sources) for an education project. This is the Socrates Project, through which they are creating a second edition of…

Photo: by lonelyplanet.com Members of Headwaters have a wonderful opportunity to create short videos (as easy as using a smartphone) of the Valley that promote nature, and in turn, promote HMN, and earn volunteer hours. What a deal! Michelle Prysby, Director of the Virginia Master Naturalist Program, has requested our chapter to consider a collaborative…

Photo: by Paul Dickens David Forrer, Cohort VI, learning how to use a cross-cut saw. I don’t think of myself as a whiner…but then, what whiner does? Patsy (my wife and favorite hiking buddy) and I hiked Ramsey’s Draft, Jerry’s Run, and Road Hollow loop back in October. Navigating the first two of those trails…

With the help of Team Riverwalkers, and 14 other teams totaling nearly 100 volunteers, the Friends of the Middle River (FOMR) removed 150 tires, and filled a 30 cubic yard dumpster ~2/3 full of an assortment of trash, from the Middle River during our annual cleanup this year. – FOMR Chairman Dave Mangun HMNs were…