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…
Photo: 1st place in Virginia Master Naturalists in Action: “Naturalist Stream Monitoring Training” by Dianna Bridges (VMN-New River Valley Chapter) This year was the seventh Virginia Master Naturalist photo contest, with categories for “Virginia Native Flora & Fungi,” “Virginia Native Wildlife,” “Virginia Native Landscapes,” “Virginia Native Macro and Night Photography,” and “Virginia Master Naturalists in Action.” We received approximately 100 entries…
Hardy and hot HMNs in the heat of … October! Carl Droms, David Forrer, Jerry Hopkins. Wednesday, October 2 was unseasonably hot! Nevertheless, a handful of hardy HMNs managed to cover over two-thirds of our designated Adopt-a-highway roadway on Spring Creek Rd in Bridgewater to collect over six bags of trash and a bag of…
Virginia Master Naturalists Headwaters Chapter 