On a hot afternoon in early June, the 2015 training class for the Headwaters Master Naturalist chapter celebrated both the end of their first semester of study and the completion of their Spring skills project with a reception at Cooks Creek Arboretum in Bridgewater, Virginia. The twelve members of this year’s training class had undertaken…
This spring, the Trainee Class has been busy with their project to identify the tree species and create and install labels for them within Cooks Creek Arboretum. The Arboretum is approximately 8.84 acres and part of the Bridgewater town park system. Chapter members may be familiar with it because it is also a location of…
Jointly hosted are the Augusta Bird Club and Monticello Bird Club, the Virginia Society of Ornithology (VSO) held their Annual Meeting on May 8-10, 2015, at Wintergreen Resort. Past VSO president John Spahr served as general chair and brings us this report on the successful event. The Blue Ridge Mountains, the weather, the venue, the…
On May 21, 2015, Adrie and I spent the day at the Environmental Symposium organized by the Virginia Academy of Sciences at their annual meeting held this year at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. There were two sessions, the one we attended which dealt with the various organisms (Plants, Fish, Insects, etc) and another one…
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…
Virginia Master Naturalists Headwaters Chapter 