• 🧤 Volunteer: Cape Charles NAP Work Day Session #1

    Cape Charles NAP 301 Patrick Henry Avenue, Cape Charles, VA, United States

    You are invited to help with stewardship activities at CCNAP! Please sign up here.  The invasive bamboo removal portion of the day is being done in collaboration with the Bay Creek Stewardship folks, as we did in 2023 and 2024. This year, we’re hoping to have enough ESMN volunteers to also maintain our native planting […]

    Free
  • 🧤 Volunteer: Cape Charles NAP Work Day Session #2

    Cape Charles NAP 301 Patrick Henry Avenue, Cape Charles, VA, United States

    You are invited to help with stewardship activities at CCNAP! Please sign up here. The invasive bamboo removal portion of the day is being done in collaboration with the Bay Creek Stewardship folks, as we did in 2023 and 2024. This year, we’re hoping to have enough ESMN volunteers to also maintain our native planting […]

    Free
  • 💡CE: Birding on the Deck

    Birding on the Deck at the Island House Restaurant, Wachapreague, Virginia Join us for a relaxed evening of birding and socializing No experience necessary. Dinner and/or drinks at your option. Dinner Reservations (Optional): Island House Restaurant 757-787-4242 Better Impact Category 2: Continuing Education

    Free
  • 🧤Volunteer: Cape Charles NAP Work Day Session #3 UPDATED

    Cape Charles NAP 301 Patrick Henry Avenue, Cape Charles, VA, United States

    You are invited to help with stewardship activities at CCNAP! ESMN volunteers are needed to help weed our native planting area, remove invasives, trim back vines, and do some boardwalk maintenance. Thursday April 24th: 10am-noon. VDCR will have a first aid kit and AED on site and a large water cooler for refilling bottles. Please bring […]

    Free
  • Earth Day – Return to Our Roots in Exmore

    Main Street Exmore Main Street, Exmore, VA, United States

    Master Naturalists Education and Outreach will have a booth at this event and we need volunteers!  There will need to be a dedicated child crafter aid and the other volunteers will discuss Master Naturalists, The importance of native plants and the interconnectedness of the environment.  This was rained out last year but could have 100 […]

    Free
  • VESLT Table at Return to Our Roots Earth Day Event

    Main Street Exmore Main Street, Exmore, VA, United States

    VES Land Trust will have a table at the Return to Our Roots Earth Day event. We are looking for volunteers that are interested in assisting with our seeds/plant activity for kids. We will have this event run in shifts, or those interested may help the whole time, if desired. Shift 1 is 9:45 AM […]

    Free
  • Volunteer: ANEC Arbor Day Celebration

    ANEC 21275 Cooperative Way, Tasley, VA, United States

    Free Native (mostly) plants and trees  4/26   8:30-1:30 Plant Eastern Shore Natives will have a booth at this event and we need volunteers!!!  Volunteers will be responsible for discussing the importance of native plants, taking pledges to plant more and handing our new native plants booklets.  There will be over 200 people here. We need […]

  • TNC Open Farm Day at Brownsville Preserve

    TNC Brownsville Preserve 11332 Brownsville Rd, Nassawadox, Virginia

    For more information about the event, or to volunteer, please contact Outreach and Education Coordinator Margaret Van Clief at mvanclief@tnc.org or 757-414-9227. ESMNs who volunteer for the following activities may submit hours for volunteer service credit: Help with family activities (nature arts & crafts, educational games): 12:15 – 3 p.m.: 4 volunteers needed, including 1-2 […]

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  • Member🧤Volunteer Opportunity: VESLT 2nd Grade Field Trip

    Volunteers assist with co-leading a 2nd grade class along the nature trail pointing out habitat, living things and their life cycles, how plants/animals are interdependent with their living and non-living surroundings, and natural resources along the way. Essentially, covering 2nd grade SOLS 2.4, 2.5, and 2.8. There will be a few stations as well throughout […]

  • Birding at TNC Nassawango Preserve

    Identify spring warblers and migrants of bottomland swamps TNC Nassawango Preserve, Furnace Town, east of Snow Hill, MD Parking on Millville Road near intersection with Furnace Town Road. Leaders:  Maggie Long 610-500-9971 and Joette Borzik 

  • Field Trip: Bay Creek Nature Preserve

    Bay Creek Nature Preserve 1 Clubhouse Way, Cape Charles, VA

    Visit the various habitats at the Bay Creek development preserve. Bay Creek Nature Preserve; 1 Clubhouse Way, Cape Charles, VA Leaders: Walter Childs, Maggie Long, Stan Osmolenski. Register with Maggie Long at 610-500-9971 by April 20. CE: Category 2

  • 💡Member CE: Savage Neck Dunes Natural Area Preserve Walk with A.L.L.

    Savage Neck Dunes Natural Area Preserve 2186 Savage Neck Rd. Drive, Cape Charles, VA, United States

    Savage Neck Dunes Natural Area Preserve Instructor: Rose-Marie Roessler (Rosemarie.a.roessler@gmail.com) This 298-acre preserve contains outstanding Chesapeake Bay beach, dune, and maritime forest communities, migratory songbird habitat, and the largest population of the globally rare federally protected northeastern beach tiger beetles (Habroscelimorpha dorsalis dorsailis). The adults are active along the intertidal zone (the area between high […]

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  • 💡Member CE: VMN Webinar: Butterfly population trends in America north of Mexico and their most likely drivers

    Virtual

    Description: Mounting evidence shows that insects are declining world-wide, leading to the so-called “insect apocalypse”. Unfortunately, this is also true for butterflies in America and Canada. Leslie Ries will present the evidence showing patterns and trajectories of butterfly declines here in American north of Mexico. She will also summarize a recent study examining the most […]

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