• Junior Rangers Rise!

    Rock Creek Nature Center 5200 Glover Rd NW, Washington, United States

    (DC) (National Park Service) Celebrate Freedom 250 at Rock Creek Park with Junior Rangers Rise! Caring for Parks, Caring for the Future—a two-day, family-friendly event that connects 250 years of American history to the next generation of park stewards. Through hands-on activities, ranger-led programs, and interactive experiences, participants will discover how curiosity, caring for nature, and everyday actions can carry ...

  • Earth Day Celebration and Trail Care

    (VA) (Friends of Mount the Vernon Trail) Celebrate Earth Day and help us remove trash from the marsh near Marina Towers on the Mount Vernon Trail. This event is celebrating Earth Day and Celebrate Trails Day. The last time we removed trash at this location volunteers picked up 2,400+ lbs of trash. Let's try and break that record. This is ...

  • Earth Day at Brookside Gardens

    Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD, United States

    (MD) (Montgomery Parks) Celebrate Earth Day at Brookside with activities and performances entirely geared toward families. Little ones can try out being a naturalist and learn how to pot a plant — and take said potted plant home, while supplies last. Watch live science experiments with the Science Guys of Baltimore during the first half of the event, and then ...

  • City Nature Challenge: Nocturnal Naturalists at Bull Run Regional Park

    Atlantis Water Park at Bull Run 7700 Bull Run Drive, Centreville, VA, United States

    (VA) (NOVA Parks) (Capital Nature) (MNCPPC) Join us for this global community science event by making observations on the free app iNaturalist. We'll set out to observe as many nocturnal critters as we can. We will also be setting up a mothing station and using a UV lights to locate critters that glow in the dark. It shapes up to ...

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