Our Lead Teacher, Naturalist, & Audubon Discovery Camp Director – Amy Moore – has been busy these days! This time of year, you’d usually find her hunting for macroinvertebrates with local 4th grade students, or in the middle of interviewing potential camp counselors. But in recent months, all that’s changed. She’s been creatively adapting to COVID-19 by creating a series...
To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we put together a photo montage – check it out below! Members and friends of Potomac Valley Audubon Society submitted photos that reflect our mission statement of “preserving, restoring, and enjoying the natural world through education and action.” Our Lead Teacher & Naturalist – Amy Moore – then compiled these photos into...
We teamed up with the West Virginia Rivers Coalition for an interview with Hagerstown’s WDVM and The Martinsburg Journal – you’ll find links to both news pieces below. We discussed the recent findings showing North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds in 50 years, and how land conservation efforts can help mitigate this ecological crisis. WDVM video & article...
We love this video from our friends at Trout Unlimited: A Nation’s River The Potomac truly is “A Nation’s River.” We’re so glad to have groups like Trout Unlimited, and it’s partner organizations, working to improve our watershed.
Jefferson Magazine – a local publication featuring stories from the Jefferson County area and surrounding regions – just published a fantastic article about Stauffer’s Marsh Nature Preserve. Head to this link to read all about our history with the preserve, the work we’re doing to protect this crucial wetland, and about some of the unique bird species found there.
We had a special visitor at Cool Spring Preserve in mid-May: Blair Benson, who is in the midst of a “50/50/50” project. He aims to observe 50 bird species in each of the 50 states over the course of 50 days…quite a feat! PVAS trip leader and expert birder, Beth Poole, served as Blair’s local guide for the day. They...
Front row, left to right: Matt Wuertzer, Jenna Lynch, Amy Moore (Camp Director), Josephine Valentine, Valarie Swan; Back row, left to right: Taryn Bromser-Kloeden, Dante Wright, David Blight, Cristen Gillett (Yankauer Site Director), Eric Collins. We are so excited to introduce our 2019 Audubon Discovery Camp staff! Each one of them brings a unique skill set sure to enhance every...
PVAS was recently featured in The Journal. Head to this link to read all about the exciting projects we have planned!
by K.C. Walters, Conservation and Land Manager New Year’s resolutions are so hard! Spring sprang, time slipped away from me, and I nearly ditched my greening blog. But fear not, I have not given up my primary objective of making small changes and taking steps toward being a few shades greener. These last two months I have given a lot...
In case you haven’t heard the news, Cool Spring Preserve is now solar-powered. We welcome you to monitor our solar production through Solar Edge. Below is the backstory on how the solar panels came to be… On an ordinary December day, the extraordinary happened: Bill Anderson of Milestone Solar flipped the switch and made the Case Nature Center solar-powered! The...
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