Thanks to everyone who participated in the Headwaters Chapter Wildflower Walks & Tournament 2014! What do you get when you combine over 40 wildflower enthusiasts, 20 Master Naturalist volunteers and wildflower experts, 4 trails in the George Washington National forest and over 100 plant species? A great time in the woods! Thanks to all who…
Headwaters Master Naturalists Chapter Advisor Paul Bugas arranged for Virginia Master Naturalist State Coordinator Alycia Crall and HMN leaders Tom Long and RoxAnna Theiss to join him on WMRA’s call-in talk show Virginia Insight with interviewer Tom Graham. The show was heard live on Thursday, May 8 at 3:00 PM. By all accounts, the show…
So, What Did I Get? And What Am I Getting? RoxAnna Theiss In the fall of 2011 I took my Master Naturalist Training. There were 22 ish in the class and we spent nine weeks learning whatever could be crammed into nine weeks about the natural world and the conservation and preservation of Virginia’s…
Once a bright and sure sign of autumn, monarch butterflies are now in worrisome decline. Scientists have tracked their decreasing numbers for several years. A recent study showed the lowest ever population of migrating eastern monarchs. A number of factors have contributed to the decline of the monarch butterfly. Here in the United States, industrialized…
by RoxAnna Theiss Headwaters has been extremely fortunate to have space in the Houff Center at the Bridgewater Retirement Community for our Basic Training classes since the Fall of 2012. It is a beautiful space and well equipped. It comes with wireless Internet connection, a projector screen and a set up and break down crew…
Virginia Master Naturalists Headwaters Chapter 