Celebrating Our VMN 2022 Statewide Award Winners
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Virginia Master Naturalist 2022 awards for: VMN New Volunteer of the Year VMN Chapter Advisor of the Year VMN Chapter Leader…
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From Our Sponsors – Winter 2023
Virginia Master Naturalist Volunteers Digitize Watchlist Data Virginia Master Naturalists recently completed a special project with the Virginia Department of Conservation’s Natural Heritage division. Natural Heritage Zoology Lab Manager Olivia…
Laurels – Winter 2023
Cover art for “The Boy Who Could Bee” VMN Volunteer Roger Gosden Publishes a New Book for Young Adults Our Virginia Master Naturalist volunteers are multi-talented, and many of them…
The Cleopatra Project: Poisonous and Venomous Animals in Virginia
The Cleopatra Project cover art by Trish Crowe. On January 3, 2023, UVa Health announced the publication of The Cleopatra Project – Poisonous and Venomous Animals in Virginia, an on-line…
Tales from the Trail
By Meagan Thomas, Watchable Wildlife Biologist, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources If you are one of over two hundred Adopt-a-Trail (AAT) Volunteers, we at the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources…
Laurels – Fall 2022
Shea Megale and Tom Ligon with their Water Quality Special Team Award from the Prince William Soil and Water Conservation District. Merrimac Farm Volunteers Tom Ligon and Shea Megale Earn…
Celebrating the Virginia Opossum in 2023 with the VMN Recertification Pin
Each year, previously certified VMN volunteers who complete another 40 hours of approved volunteer service and 8 hours of approved continuing education earn a unique recertification pin for that year. In…
Reflections on the 15-year History of the Riverine Master Naturalists
By Emily Gianfortoni, VMN volunteer, Riverine ChapterRiverine Chapter VMN Establishment and the Early Years of the Chapter Beginnings: In 2006 Colleen Calderwood, Hanover County Cooperative Extension Agent at the time, recruited…
New Partnerships with the NAACP for Natural Resource Education and Conservation
–Contributors: Cynthia Edwards and Henry McBurney (VMN-Historic Southside Chapter), Susan Crockett and Susan Walton (VMN-Middle Peninsula Chapter) Many of our Virginia Master Naturalist chapters are working to engage more diverse…
Laurels – Summer 2022
Each quarter, we invite VMN chapters to share stories of volunteers’ awards and accomplishments. Our Laurels posts are not only a way to provide recognition to those volunteers, but also…