Eastern Shore Master Naturalists

🧤 Natural Area Preserve Stewardship Days - Savage Neck Dunes NAP
2025-11-03 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Savage Neck Dunes Natural Area Preserve, 2186 Savage Neck Rd. Drive, Cape Charles, VA, United States
Please join us to remove invasive species at DCR Natural Area Preserves in November. Jennifer and Will are going to be there and take the lead on these, focusing on invasive species removal and treatment (the latter only by DCR staff). There will be no RSVP forms supplied, we’ll just hope for anywhere from 2 to 12 volunteers show up.

Schedule – 10am to noon each day; meet in the NAP parking lot.

Monday November 3 – Savage Neck Dunes NAP

Tuesday November 11 – Cape Charles NAP

Monday November 17 – Magothy Bay.

We will bring some hand tools and extra gloves, but please bring your own if you have comfortable ones you like to use.

Please check the weather and dress appropriately. If it is raining, we will likely need to reschedule. If you have any blaze orange to wear, that is recommended, but not required. Ticks can still be active, so please take measures to protect yourself.

Please log your hours under the NAP Category in Better Impact.

💡 CE: Reaching an Audience Where They Are
2025-11-05 19:00 - 20:00
Description: Do you do tabling at events? Or take programs out to different facilities, organizations, or sites? Then you are involved in what we know as outreach, which can range from informational to interpretive. Learn how to create opportunities for informal or spontaneous interpretation. We’ll also discuss design for signage, pop-up exhibits, and tables as well as incorporating hands-on and minds-on activities to captivate your audience and inspire them to seek more from your organization.

Presenter: Angela Yau is the Nature Program Facility Manager at Locust Grove Nature Center with Montgomery Parks, a Certified Interpretive Trainer with the National Association for Interpretation, a Registered Coach with the National Park Service, a yoga teacher, and a historical clothier. She started with a Masters in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida, specializing in human dimensions and interpretive and ecotourism planning. She has worked in interpretation of cultural and natural resources and training staff and volunteers for over 30 years and loves helping people be the voice of the resource. Angela has a passion for sharing the stories that help people to connect, care for, and conserve these precious resources.

Link: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81632845260

🧤 Volunteer: TNC Elementary School Field Trips
2025-11-06 09:00 - 13:30 | TNC Brownsville Preserve, 11332 Brownsville Rd, Nassawadox, Virginia, 23413
Also November 13, and maybe 14.

Volunteers will guide 5th grade students through forest, high marsh, or low marsh habitats looking for examples of food, shelter, and water through the eyes of different animals and plants that are found living there.

Groups of students will number around 25 each. No volunteer would lead a group by themselves but will help TNC staff or lead with another volunteer. Parent chaperones and teachers will also be with each group to help. Most groups arrive at Brownsville Preserve around 9:15 or so and leave by 1:15.

Anyone volunteering who isn’t already youth safety certified through TNC will need to sign a two-time exception waiver where they can volunteer twice with TNC where youth are present before needing to go through a background check and short online training.

Anyone can be helpful if they like to be around kids and nature. We have lesson plan documents that we can share with anyone who is interested so that they get some details on what the field trip is like.

Contact jennifer.miller@tnc.org to sign up. Please log your hours under Category 13, The Nature Conservancy
