CHAPTER NEWS & PROJECTS

Botany Field Trip to the Jones' Farm

Master naturalists in training visit a local naturalist's haven of flora and fauna.     .... more 

Chapter Begins Stewardship Project at Montpelier

Old Rag Chapter began a long-term stewardship commitment to James Madison's Montpelier with an inaugural garlic mustard pull in the Old Growth forest.     .... more 

Project Montpelier

The site is one of the few existing Old Growth Forests on the east coast which, over the years, invasive plants have encroached upon.     .... more 

Forestry Field Trip

The Chapter visits Jim Ballard's 100-acre wooded tract.     .... more 

Chapter Trainees Learn About Stream Monitoring

On October 13, 2007, the current class of trainees for the Old Rag Master Naturalist Chapter attended a field trip to learn about stream assessment.     .... more 

	Photo by Richard Lykes.

Volunteer Projects

Our chapter, working with our sponsors and partners, is developing a list of potential projects in which our members can choose to participate. All projects must be approved by the chapter to count toward the volunteering commitment of the participating member. The following projects have been approved, and more are being developed:

• Adopt an Outcrop
• Appalachian Trail Annual Water Resources Sampling (AT Water)
• Appalachian Trail Invasive Removal (AT Invasives)
• Big Meadow Invasives Management (Save the Meadow)
• Bird Banding
• Blandy Experimental Farm and Arboretum (Blandy Farm)
• Bluebird Box Monitoring
• Brumfield Elementary School Tree Planting (Brumfield Tree)
• Butterfly Survey
• Cerulean Warbler Transect Project
• CEWA MAPPING PROJECT
• Chapter Outreach
• Chestnut ID - PATC
• Chestnut Restoration
• Clean Streams Day
• Cornell Bird Counts
• Cornell's Project Feeder Watch (Feederwatch)
• CRC Butterfly and Bird counts
• Culpeper Soil & Water Rain Barrel Program (Culpeper Rain Barrel)
• DGIF Madison Wildlife Action Plan (Madison WAP) and DGIF Wildlife Mapping (Wildlife Mapping)
• Frogwatch
• General - John Marshall Soil & Water Conservation District
• Hoover Ridge Tree Planting
• Montpelier/James Madison Landmark Forest Invasive Management Program (Montpelier Invasives)
• Rain Garden
• Rappahannock Elementary Junior Naturalists (Rapp El Junior Naturalists)
• Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch
• Rural Madison Macro-Invertebrate Stream Monitoring (Rural Madison Streams)
• Rural Madison Tree Identification at Hoover Ridge Nature Trail (Rural Madison Tree ID)
• Smith Bluebird Trail
• Smithsonian CRC Forest Ecology Project (CRC Ecology)
• SNP Alluvial Forest Invasive Removal (SNP Invasives)
• SNP plant propagation
• Stream Watch
• Trail Building and Maintenance (Trail Building)
• Trout in the Classroom
• Upper Rappahannock River Watershed Stream Monitoring Program (Upper Rapp Stream)
• Virginia Cooperative Extension - Madison
• Waverly Yowell Science and Nature Enhancement
• What Makes Trillium Happy? (Trillium Study)
• Whitney State Forest Plant Survey (Whitney Plant Survey)
• Wildlife Habitat Open House

Volunteer Opportunities with State Agencies

For a document that outlines some of the many possible projects available with the state agencies that are sponsoring this program, click here.