(DC) (National Park Service) Let’s get creative together and paint with water.  In July visitors are encouraged to create a landscape or something in nature that inspires them at Rock Creek Park!  The fun with water continues in August as we create gray petaltail dragonflies, one of the park's native insect species that is found near water, and more colorful ...

(DC) (National Portrait Gallery) “Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism” presents some of the key people—scientists, politicians, activists, writers and artists—whose work has influenced attitudes toward the environment in the United States from the late 19th century until today. The exhibition traces a history of the movement from turn-of-the-20th-century conservationism to mid-20th-century environmentalism and its backlash. It also addresses ...