Master Naturalist
June 2022
PVAS Ambassador Training!
Earn your volunteer hours by serving as a PVAS Ambassador! Ambassador Training Hosts: KC Walters, PVAS Land & Conservation Manager and Krista Hawley, PVAS Adult Program Coordinator PVMN Continuing Education Hours Eligible This free, in-person training is to provide you with the inside scoop into all things PVAS and the tools you’ll need to host events, nature walks or represent PVAS at fairs and festivals. Upon completion of training, you will have all the resources available to help you confidently field…
Find out more »Summer Nature Journaling Gathering at Cool Spring Nature Preserve
Field Journaling Guide: Joy Bridy PVMN Continuing Education Eligible Everyone is welcome to join this free, outdoor nature journaling gathering, regardless of their journaling experience. Please register below. Embrace the Summer Solstice through Nature Journaling. Nature journaling is the process of going outside, paying attention to what we see, hear, smell and feel, and recording these observations, thoughts and questions about nature using a combination of words, pictures and numbers in a journal. Techniques may include writing and drawing, or…
Find out more »July 2022
Singing Insect Walk at Cool Spring Preserve
Trip Leader: Wil Hershberger Registration is required and will be limited to 14 participants ages 14 years and older. PMVN Continuing Education Eligible Join Wil Hershberger, local insect expert, for an evening insect walk at Cool Spring Preserve. Listen and learn about the all the various insects we hear in the summer and early fall months. Mr. Hershberger is coauthor of “The Songs of Insects”, a book and audio CD published by Houghton-Mifflin Company. He is also the instructor of…
Find out more »August 2022
Moonlight Hike at Cool Spring Preserve
Moonlight Hike Guide: Molly Hilldenbrand, PVAS AmeriCorps Volunteer This event is free and open to the public; however, registration is required. Please register below Celebrate the Full Moon with a Moonlight Hike at the Preserve! Let the full moon be our guide on the beautiful summer trails at Cool Spring Preserve. Join Molly Hilldebrand, PVAS AmeriCorps Volunteer, on a moonlit walk around Linda’s Loop. We will keep an eye and ear out for our busy resident beavers and perhaps a muskrat,…
Find out more »October 2022
Potomac Valley Audubon Society’s Monthly Program: Climate Change in our Backyard: An Introduction to USGS Research in Bullskin Run and Streams Across the Region
Presenter: Dr. Nathaniel (Than) Hitt, Research Fish Biologist at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center in Kearneysville WV PVMN Continuing Education Eligible This in-person program is free and open to the public. The Potomac Valley Audubon Society welcomes Than Hitt as he presents "Climate Change in our Backyard: An Introduction to USGS Research in Bullskin Run and Streams Across the Region". Join PVAS for their September Monthly Program where Mr. Hitt will address several topics, including but not limited to:…
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