For the past year and a half, several Headwaters Master Naturalists have been participating in the eMammal project. Conducted by the Smithsonian Institution’s Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) in Front Royal, the eMammal Project aims to produce the same kind of database of mammal movements and behavior that exists for birds, thanks to the efforts of…
Escaped from a nearby cemetery, wavyleaf basketgrass (WLBG) has slowly been creeping into the understory of the Shenandoah National Park near Elkton since around 2005. Headwaters Master Naturalist and Virginia Native Plant Society member Chris Bowlen has led a removal effort for the last three years. On June 23, Master Naturalists Betty Forrest and Jerry…
Despite forecasts to the contrary, it was a gorgeous May evening as we headed from our various locations to the “Top of the World” on Reddish Knob. A call for help had come just a bit over week before from the United States Forest Service North River Ranger Station. The trimming of overgrowth at the…
May 2014 After considerable discussion among our HMN board members about safety concerns along Spring Creek Road in Bridgewater, we decided to go ahead and give it a try as our adopted road for keeping clean of litter. Conveniently located for a majority of our membership, needy and visible, the ~ 2.4 mile stretch of…
The May 21, 2014, Headwaters Chapter Virginia Master Naturalist Basic Training Class included of a panel of experts who discussed the exciting and growing world of citizen science. David Mellor, Ph.D, chair of the panel and Citizen Science Coordinator of Virginia Master Naturalists, began by challenging panel members to define the concept of citizen science.…
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