Photo: by coastalliving.com Looking Ahead… Hello, VMNs. The web page for the 2020 VMN Statewide Conference and Training is now available! The dates for the conference will be Friday, September 11, through Sunday, 13, 2020. At the top of the page, the latest updates are listed. Today, we have event dates, venue and lodging information. We…
Photo: by the trail camera Emily and Adrie caught on camera setting up the bait station. The Eastern Spotted Skunk Project The Eastern Spotted Skunk Survey Project is back for one more winter! Started and coordinated by Va Tech graduate student Emily Thorne, Virginia Master Naturalists have been adopting sites to set up baited trail cameras…
Photo: from Headwaters SWCD Hi, Everyone–I’m writing today to let you know that we’ve recently approved a new project for volunteering in the chapter, and to give you a little information about what it entails! We had a request from the Soil and Water Conservation District for some assistance with their Underground Classroom. The UC is…
Photo: by Carl Droms Incoming President Brian Lux and newly Past President Chris Bowlen having a conversation about who caught the larger fish (ok, not really!). Food, Fun, and Photos! The Annual Meeting/Potluck was fun, interesting and, more importantly, delicious! Carl Droms took great shots and graciously uploaded them to a slideshow for…
Photo: by The Pew Charitable Trusts Rich Hole & Rough Moutain Press release from Senator Tim Kaine’s Office January 7, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark R. Warner applauded Senate passage of the Virginia Wilderness Additions Act, a bill they introduced to add a total of 5,600 acres to two…
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…
Photo: by Adrie Voors, Cohort II At the Verona VDGIF office, Kate (left), teases out lymph nodes from a deer head. Chelsey Faller works on the back left, while Chelsey’s technician, Erin DeGuntis works on the right. Fall is for white-tailed deer hunting, and since 2009 Virginia has seen a slow, steady spread of chronic wasting…
