Wild about Water (entering grades 1-5) Water is life! Let’s discover what animals depend on the aquatic habitats at Cool Spring Preserve! Explore the ponds and dams created by our resident beavers, catch critters in the creek and muck through the wetland. We’ll discover animals’ unique adaptations as we wade in the stream like herons, slide like otters on a […]
Become a PVAS Weed Warrior! PVAS Host: KC Walters PVMN Continuing Education Eligible This training is free and open to the public. Children 12+ are welcome to take the training, but must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is required. If you want to volunteer at our nature preserves, but can’t make it to the scheduled volunteer workdays, this training […]
Join Hannah for weekly train maintenance at Cool Spring Preserve! PVAS Host: Hannah Kulla PVMN Volunteer Service Hours Eligible • Registration is required Plants such as autumn olive, multiflora rose, and others are encroaching on the trails, and we need help clipping them back to make sure our trails are comfortable for all visitors. Tools are provided, but please bring […]
Nature Sleuths (entering grades 1-6) Do you have what it takes to uncover the mysteries of the ultimate nature crime scene? In this camp, you’ll be issued a “Nature Sleuth,” badge, and be put on your first case to investigate the suspicious activities that have been happening at the preserve. Who left those tracks and is up to no good? It’s […]
Join Hannah for weekly train maintenance at Cool Spring Preserve! PVAS Host: Hannah Kulla PVMN Volunteer Service Hours Eligible • Registration is required Plants such as autumn olive, multiflora rose, and others are encroaching on the trails, and we need help clipping them back to make sure our trails are comfortable for all visitors. Tools are provided, but please bring […]
Join Deana Thorsell for Nature Journaling! Field Journaling Guide: Deana Thorsell and Noah Alcantara PVMN Continuing Education Eligible This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required and limited to 12 participants. In celebration of the Summer Solstice, join us at Cool Spring Preserve for our annual solstice gathering. We'll be experimenting with both words and images […]
Ultimate Survivor Camp (entering grades 6-9) Are you ready to level up your wilderness survival skills? This week is all about using resources that you find in nature to survive. We’ll construct survival shelters and build fires without lighters or matches. Weave your own pine needle basket to use for foraging for wild food that you’ll cook over a fire […]
Camp Survivor (entering grades 1-5) Could you survive if you were lost in the wilderness? We’ll have a blast building shelters, fires and tools, and learning how to purify water. We will also learn how to find food in the wild, use a map and compass, and tie knots. Through challenges that will test your mind, body, and teamwork skills, […]
Join Beth Poole on a monthly bird walk at Cool Spring Preserve! PVAS Host: Beth Poole This event is free and open to the public. Anyone with an interest is welcome to come along, regardless of their birding skills. Children 12+ are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is required and limited to 15 participants. The trails […]
Join Hannah for weekly train maintenance at Cool Spring Preserve! PVAS Host: Hannah Kulla PVMN Volunteer Service Hours Eligible • Registration is required Plants such as autumn olive, multiflora rose, and others are encroaching on the trails, and we need help clipping them back to make sure our trails are comfortable for all visitors. Tools are provided, but please bring […]
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