–By Rick Brown, VMN-Historic Rivers Chapter The Bassett Trace Nature Trail is a 1.4-mile out-and-back trail found within the 585 acre Bassett Woodlands at Colonial Williamsburg. The trailhead is located…
By Linda Hughes, VMN-Historic Rivers Chapter Like our nation’s Native American peoples, Virginia Master Naturalists have a goal of building communities of people committed to harmony and healing our ecosystems.…
–Contributed by Courtney Hallacher, DWR Statewide Wildlife Education Coordinator DWR is looking for additional VMN chapters to join the Living with Black Bears (LWBB) outreach and education project. As black…
–Contributed by Henry McBurney, VMN-Historic Southside Chapter Along with the once vast longleaf pine savannahs spread across the southeastern U.S. landscape that, in 1607, began supplying the world’s appetite for…
Growing native plant seeds into plugs at the Clifton Institute greenhouse. Image by Isaac Matlock. Map of 2023 seed collections compared to 2022 collections. With the help of VMN Volunteers,…
Several mushroom species in the genus Amanita are known to be poisonous, including this Eastern North American Destroying Angel (Amanita bisporigera; id by iNaturalist.org.) Photo by Jeff Clark (CC BY…
The Cleopatra Project cover art by Trish Crowe. On January 3, 2023, UVa Health announced the publication of The Cleopatra Project – Poisonous and Venomous Animals in Virginia, an on-line…
