It was an early start, even for someone who gets up every weekday at 5:30am. On Saturday August 29, 2015, I met Chris Bowlen and Adrie Voors at 6:45am in Grottoes to go to the Holiday Lake 4-H Educational Center in Appomattox for the Virginia Master Naturalist regional conference. Jerry Hopkins made the two hour drive…
Headwaters Master Naturalists celebrated the success of our 2015 Monarchs & More! Chapter Focus Project on Saturday, August 15th. It was a beautiful day for HMN chapter members to join area pollinators in the gardens that we created across Rockingham and Augusta counties. The Migration Tour was a time of showing and viewing our five…
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…
from the Edith J. Carrier Arboretum at James Madison University. By Sandy Greene, July 30, 2015 Many of us have volunteered in some way at the Carrier Arboretum, and all of those activities are approved projects already. But in a recent meeting with Jan Mahon, Director, and Janis Traas, Volunteer Coordinator, I learned about so…
On Saturday, July 11, 2015, seven members of the Headwaters Master Naturalist group attended the Frog Habitat Day at Springdale Water Gardens in Greenville, VA. In spite of a rainy start to the day, HMN volunteers had a great time assisting at the event — talking with attendees about dragonflies and tadpoles, identifying plants, and…
Virginia Master Naturalists Headwaters Chapter 