Historic Rivers Chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalists

Article in the Washington Post: Was the Virginia mastodon really there, or was this a big mistake? (it wasn’t a mistake!) Credit is given to the volunteers from the Historic Rivers Chapter.

And another article, Rare find: Mastodon bones unearthed in Yorktown, in the Virginian Pilot.

Gerald Johnson, at the site of the mastodon dig. Members of the Historic Rivers Chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalists helped him dig the bones.

York County Board of Supervisors recognized the Wildlife Mapping Team as a 2013 Outstanding Volunteer! On hand to accept the award for the team was Cherie Aukland, who is one of the coordinators for the HRC’s Wildlife Mapping Projects..Congrats to ALL who have participated in Wildlife Mapping at NQP over the past couple of years!

Wildlife Mapping Team named Outstanding Volunteers by York County

We are official!  Our butterfly circle application was accepted by the North American Butterfly Association. In August, we will hold and then report our first Butterfly Count for the Williamsburg area. Watch for updates on how you can volunteer for the HRC butterfly count.

I like numbers and there are some amazing ones in the HRC 2013 Annual Report, such as:

• 317 — the volunteer hours devoted to the Bluebird Monitoring project,
• 5650– the number of people reached through our education and outreach efforts during the year.
• 6584 volunteer hours worked on Citizen Science projects.

Take a look and see what we have accomplished!