(VA) (NOVA Parks) Join us as we work to keep our park healthy and beautiful! Assist with invasive plant removal, habitat restoration, and other projects as needed. Come dressed for and prepared to work outdoors. Gloves and snippers are recommended, but extras may be provided if needed. Meet at the picnic shelter (located in main parking lot). Ages 9 + ...
(MD) (Montgomery Parks) Learn about plant propagation in our state-of-the-art greenhouse facilities. You’ll discover how to produce your own houseplants inexpensively and easily from start to finish. We’ll review the best techniques and plants to propagate from cuttings. Participants will get to take a few potted cuttings to grow at home. Instructor: Nate Roehrich, Brookside Gardens staff. Find more Montgomery ...
(MD) (Anacostia Watershed Society) Are you interested in being a site leader for AWS's annual Earth Day Cleanup? Join us for one of two informational sessions. Earth Day Site Leaders oversee cleanup sites throughout the Anacostia Watershed. Anyone from the community can sign up to be a site leader - so join us this year!
(DC) (Rock Creek Conservancy) Help the National Capital Region Invasive Plant Management Team, Rock Creek Park, and Invader Detectives scout for Arum italicum (Italian Arum), corydalis incisa (Incised Fumewort), berberis bealai (Leatherleaf Mahonia)! We will be hiking and recording any presence of these three plants on the Western Ridge Trail. Our goal is to search for and understand the extent ...
(DC) (Rock Creek Conservancy) Join Rock Creek Conservancy, the National Park Service, and Weed Warrior Kathy Sykes for this invasive plant removal restoration event in Rock Creek Park. Invasive plants are a major threat to our fragile forests, and stopping their spread helps allow native plants to thrive in the understory. Event location, directions, and information will be sent from ...
(DC) (Ward 8 Woods) Join Ward 8 Woods every second Saturday of the month to restore Shepherd Parkway by removing trash and invasive vines that are smothering the trees. Since 2011, over 2,000 volunteers have removed over 200 tons of trash from the woods and cut invasive vines from over 500 trees, but much work remains to be done. Give back ...
(DC) (Anacostia Watershed Society) Join the Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS) and National Links Trust (NLT) for a Habitat Restoration Workday! During this workday you will help AWS with our invasive plant control and revegetation efforts along the riverside area of Kingman Island. We will be meeting at the driving range. This is part of a natural resources management plan for ...
(VA) (Northern Virginia Conservation Trust) Help us clean up the Hunting Creek area! The trash and debris that pile in from the Potomac River and Cameron Run harms the wildlife, ruins the environment and makes recreation in the area difficult. We hope you will join us and show up for the enviroment! This event will be a land-based cleanup of ...
