Join the PVAS teaching staff for a winter solstice celebration at Cool Spring Preserve! We’ll set out on a night hike around the preserve listening for owls and looking for signs of other creatures of the night. Then, we’ll sip hot chocolate and roast marshmallows by a cozy campfire while listening to campfire stories. We’ll provide the hot chocolate, marshmallows...
Check out the PVAS Summer Concert Series at Cool Spring Preserve! All performances are free of charge and open to all, thanks to the musicians who generously volunteer their time and talent. You’re invited to bring a picnic dinner (BYOB welcome), and are encouraged to take a hike around the preserve before or after the music. Performances are held outside...
Check out the PVAS Summer Concert Series at Cool Spring Preserve! All performances are free of charge and open to all, thanks to the musicians who generously volunteer their time and talent. You’re invited to bring a picnic dinner (BYOB welcome), and are encouraged to take a hike around the preserve before or after the music. Performances are held outside...
Check out the PVAS Summer Concert Series at Cool Spring Preserve! All performances are free of charge and open to all, thanks to the musicians who generously volunteer their time and talent. You’re invited to bring a picnic dinner (BYOB welcome), and are encouraged to take a hike around the preserve before or after the music. Performances are held outside...
Check out the 2022 PVAS Summer Concert Series at Cool Spring Preserve! The Dilettantes—native Mountaineers, Trudy and Jeff Roth—sing songs from here and there, then and now, and originals. All performances are free of charge and open to all, thanks to the musicians who generously volunteer their time and talent. You’re invited to bring a picnic dinner (BYOB welcome), and...
Help celebrate our annual Ruth Ann Dean Memorial Birdathon by participating in the Community Collaborative Count! Our goal is to, as a community, collaboratively observe and count at least 100 different bird species within PVAS’s four-county service area of Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties in WV and Washington County, MD. Here’s how to join the fun: Gather your team (you...
Help celebrate our annual Ruth Ann Dean Memorial Birdathon by participating in the Top Birder Competition! Our goal is to raise funds for our Habitat Stewardship Programs while supporting a friendly birding competition between Matt Orsie, Bob Dean and Wil Hershberger. Sponsor your favorite “pro-birder” to help them earn birding privileges to perform at their best while they conduct a...
Wil Hershberger – the mind behind songsofinsects.com – leads a Singing Insect Walk for PVAS each year. This year’s walk was held on July 31st at Cool Spring Preserve. Because attendance was more limited than usual due to COVID-19, and because Wil has such a way with words, we’d like to share his post-walk write-up: “We walked the northern portion...
We still have trees and shrubs remaining from our Fall 2020 Native Tree and Plant Sale! PVAS Land and Conservation Manager, KC Walters, has been busy nursing a variety of native trees/shrubs for you to purchase and give loving forever homes! Click here for photos and more information about the trees and shrubs we have available. All proceeds from the...
May is Birdathon month! Help celebrate our annual Ruth Ann Dean Memorial Birdathon by participating in the Community Collaborative Big Day. This is a free community activity – though donations are always welcome – and everyone in our service area is invited to participate. Our goal is to, as a community, collaboratively observe and count at least 100 different bird species within...
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