Wingspan Wednesday
Valor Brewpub 723 8th Street, SE, DC, United States(DC) (DC Bird Alliance) Get your head in the game! Join fellow bird, beer, & board games enthusiasts for our monthly Wingspan Wednesday hang at Valor Brewpub.
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Nativescaping at Locust Grove
Locust Grove Nature Center 7777 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, MD, United States(MD) (Montgomery Parks) Check out our nativescaping programs and learn how to incorporate native plants into your landscape. Where do plants prefer? What kind of “look” would you like to design? Explore the needs of plants, how they fit your space, and how to plant communities while creating an aesthetic that works for you. This program is part of our ...
$20
Summer Twilight Concert at Brookside
Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan Ave, Wheaton, MD, United States(MD) (Montgomery Parks) Join us each Wednesday evening in September for a series of musical performances set in the beauty of the Gardens! Admission is free, and no registration is required. Bring your friends and family, and don’t forget your chairs, blankets, and picnics (allowed in the Gardens on concert evenings only). Alcoholic beverages of any kind are prohibited. Food ...
Free
Discover Native Plants
US Botanic Garden 100 Maryland Ave SW, Washington DC, United States(DC) (US Botanic Garden) Join a USBG volunteer to explore the Regional Garden! You'll learn about Mid-Atlantic native plants and how to incorporate them into a garden. Note: This tour is dependent both on weather and volunteer availability.
Free
Lincoln-Thomas Day 100th Anniversary (Virtual)
(DC) (Rock Creek Conservancy) Join Rock Creek Park, Rock Creek Conservancy, Military Road School Preservation Trust (MRSPT), and the National Association for Colored Women's Club (NACWC), and the Civil War Defenses of Washington to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lincoln-Thomas Day. Lincoln-Thomas Day, initiated by the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of America, was first observed on September 22, ...
Free
Exhibit Opening: Faces of the Forest
The Writer's Center 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, DC, United States(MD) (The Writer's Center) You're invited to the opening reception of "Faces of the Forest" by DC-based artist Sophia McCrocklin. Join us as we celebrate the beautiful yet fragile forests of Rock Creek Park. Registration is not required, but we will send reminders to those who do register.
Free
Outdoor Exhibit: Monuments – Forces of Nature
Strathmore Music Center 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD, United States(MD) (Strathmore) Strathmore’s MONUMENTS: Forces of Nature highlights the achievements and social impact of six individuals who work in climate, environmental stewardship, or resource justice in the DMV. Large-scale, nighttime portraits are projected onto live trees for stunning effect and challenge traditional expectations of public monuments and the selective history represented in our public spaces. Craig Walsh is a visual ...
Wandering Warblers at Meadowlark
Meadowlark Botanical Gardens 9750 Meadowlark Gardens, Vienna, VA, United States(VA) (NOVA Parks) Be an early bird and join us for a fabulous show of migrating warblers, a family of small insect-eating birds that often display striking plumage! While some warblers stay here for the warm season to breed, most of these birds only use our forests as a pit stop between their breeding grounds further north and their wintering ...
$7
Metz Wetlands Butterfly and Dragonfly Survey
Metz Wetlands 15875 Neabsco Road, Woodbridge(VA) (Northern Virginia Bird Alliance) Butterfly and dragonfly surveys are carried out in temperate months (April-October), normally on Friday mornings, at one of four sites around Occoquan Bay, all within the 15-mile diameter circle established for the annual North American Butterfly Association's Annual Count. The results of these surveys are made available to the participants and other interested individuals and ...
Free
Forest Bathing at Trail 9
Fort Slocum Park 5800 Kansas NW Ave, Washington, DC(DC) (Rock Creek Conservancy) Join Rock Creek Conservancy and Sarah DeWitt, Certified Forest Therapy Guide for a two-hour gentle walk to help you slow down and reconnect with yourself, nature, and your community. Forest bathing, or shinrin yoku, is the simple practice of taking in the woods through the senses. This forest bathing walk will begin with some gentle mindful ...
Free
Weed Wrangle at Reservation 630 West
Reservation 630 West 3031 Sedgwick Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States(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 for a thriving native understory. Event location, directions, and information will be sent from the event leader ...
Free
Fruit to Poop: A Seed’s Journey
US Botanic Garden 100 Maryland Ave SW, Washington DC, United States(DC) (US Botanic Garden) What's the connection between fruit and poop? Join Lilly Andersen, USBG Family Education Specialist, and USBG volunteers for this drop-in program and explore how plants and animals help each other, and the relationship between plants making fruit and animals eating that fruit. Think and learn about what makes a fruit a fruit, why fruits tend to ...
Free