CITIZEN SCIENCE

  • Bluebird Trail monitoring
  • Project Feeder Watch (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
  • eBird Program (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
  • Turkey and Grouse Survey (DWR)
  • Dept of Wildlife Resources Birdability Trail Surveys
  • Christmas Bird Count
  • Upper James and Roanoke River Watersheds Stream Monitoring
  • Winter Salt Watch
  • Vernal Pools Monitoring
  • Butterfly Monitoring – Blue Ridge Parkway
  • City Nature Challenge
  • iNaturalist
  • Frog Watch
  • CoCoRaHS Weather Reporting
  • VDOF Acorn/Seed Collection

PUBLIC OUTREACH AND EDUCATION

  • Living with Black Bears (DWR)
  • Leading a Nature Walk and Women’s Walk at Explore Park
  • Flora of Virginia Ambassadors

GO Fest, Roanoke’s Earth Day, Salem Farmers Market, SWVA Bee Festival, Explore Park Naturalist programs and special days, and other local events on native plants, pollinators, wildlife habitat and invasive plants.

STEWARSHIP

  • Garst Mill Park Native Pollinator Garden
  • Bottom Creek Gorge
  • Invasive Plant Removal at local parks and greenways
  • McAfee Knob Task Force Ridgerunner
  • Natural Area Preserve and Public Park Maintenance and Cleanups including 13thStreet Adopt a Highway and Garst Mill Park
  • Trail Maintenance on the Appalachian Trail and at Carvins Cove