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Magothy Bay NAP Workday
Excerpted from Frank Renshaw’s report to DCR. Four MBNAP stewards and two VCR staff members participated in a Japanese Honeysuckle Pull session at the Preserve on Nov. 17th. Removal was limited to the main trail near the Preserve entrance. The removed debris was loaded in a DCR pickup and hauled to the Northampton County Landfill…
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Savage Neck Dunes Natural Area Preserve Stewardship Work Day
On Monday November 3rd, volunteers (ESMNS Jim McDaniel, Rose-Marie Roessler, and Tom Young and James Roessler) joined DCR staff (Will Mears and Jennifer Madden) to manually remove invasive species at Savage Neck Dunes NAP. English Ivy was snipped around the bases of affected trees, with large vines cut and treated with herbicide by DCR staff.…
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ESMNs Recognized for Service Achievements
At the September 17th chapter meeting members Kathy Augustine, Debra Baxter, Jeanne Black, Greg Felthousen, and Melissa Rollosson were recognized by the state program office for achieving their initial certification. These members performed at least 40 hours of volunteer service and completed at least 8 hours of continuing education within a year of completing the…
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ESMNs Support STEAM Event
The Education Outreach Committee has completed the first fair of the Autumn season. We attended the STEAM (Science, Technology. Engineering, Agriculture, and Math) event hosted by the Mary N. Smith Alumni Association. The focus of the STEAM fair was a day of discovery and innovation. The ESMN committee created tree ring necklaces and “spinners”…
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ESMNs and DCR Host A.L.L. Trips
For the third consecutive spring, as part of a course organized by the Academy for Lifetime Learning (A.LL.), interpretive walks were held at preserves in the DCR Coastal Region during the month of May. This year we collaborated on five interpretive walks. With the addition of Cape Charles Natural Area Preserve, all four of the…
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What About the Insects?
Blue Ridge PRISM Fall Meeting 2024 Bullet Points Guest Speaker: Linda Fink, Professor of Biology, Emerita, Sweet Briar College, Virginia. Featured image: Tiger Swallowtail (Pterourus glaucus) larvae feeding on garden dill.
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ESMN Adds 21 Members
Twenty one students graduated as Eastern Shore of Virginia Master Naturalists after completing the Basic Training Course on November 9th. The course combined classroom instruction and field work throughout the Eastern Shore. Diverse topics were taught by leading experts and including subjects such as barrier island and coastal ecology, botany, mammalogy and others. Class venues…
Eastern Shore Master Naturalists
Managing and preserving the Eastern Shore of Virginia’s natural resources and natural areas through education, outreach, citizen science, and stewardship.