Collaborative Science is the product of a research grant entitled ‘Sustaining ecological communities through citizen science and online collaboration.’ This research is supported by the National Science Foundation and is…
New “Secret Garden” installed by Virginia Master Naturalists at the Martinsville Branch of the Blue Ridge Regional Library. Photo by Kathy Fell Article by Kathy Fell, VMN-Southwestern Piedmont Chapter If…
Flyer from pollinator workshop put on by Rivanna Chapter volunteers. By Karen L. Mulder (VMN trainee, Rivanna Chapter, class of 2015) Heading into Spring, our area hosted several events…
This article was written by Virginia Master Naturalist volunteers for their chapter annual reports, and then compiled and edited by Susan Austin Roth (Arlington Regional Chapter.) Master Naturalists…
Feral hogs from the Back Bay population in southern Virginia Beach. Photo by David Bishop, USFWS. By Susan Austin Roth Call them hogs, pigs, swine, razorbacks or Russian boars,…
The Virginia Master Naturalist program was officially launched in 2005. That year, we set the basic guidelines and structure of the program, recruited our first set of 10 chapters, hired…
Pictured from left to right: Katharine Snavely (VMN), Gale Knox (Hermitage Director), Bill Horner, Lucretia Fargo (VMN), Henry Leidheiser (VMN), Jonathan Norton (Buildings and Grounds Manager). Not pictured: Bill Fox…
A resident of Dogwood Village checks out the new bluebird box installed on the property by Virginia Master Naturalist volunteers. (Photo by Old Rag Chapter) By Julia (Julie) E. Connelly,…
This month’s featured volunteer project has educated more than 13,000 youths and adults since its inception seven years ago. Volunteer Clyde Marsteller (Historic Rivers Chapter) authored this retrospective on the…
