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Rock Creek Park deer hunt under way for tenth season

November 30, 2022 by FHC 2 Comments

If your travels take you through Rock Creek Park after dark, you might encounter road closures from now until the end of March. That’s because the park’s annual “deer management” […]

Filed Under: Featured, Melvin Hazen Park, News, Parks and Streams, Rock Creek Park, Soapstone Valley, Sustainability

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It’s the end of the trail for “Melvin Hazen” trail

February 24, 2022 by FHC 1 Comment

The National Park Service announced Wednesday that it would remove Melvin Hazen’s name from the Rock Creek tributary and trail bisected by Connecticut Avenue, as well as the community garden […]

Filed Under: Featured, Melvin Hazen Park, News, Parks and Streams

MLK weekend events include Peirce Mill, Melvin Hazen and Trail 9 cleanups

January 7, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

For the 12th year in a row, volunteers will spend the Martin Luther King holiday weekend sprucing up Rock Creek Park and its tributaries. Rock Creek Conservancy and the National […]

Filed Under: Melvin Hazen Park, News, Parks and Streams, Rock Creek Park, Volunteer in Our Parks

Rock Creek Park deer management under way through March

November 22, 2021 by FHC Leave a Comment

The National Park Service begins a new Rock Creek Park “deer management” season at sundown, and its efforts to curb the park’s whitetail deer population will continue through March 2022. […]

Filed Under: Backyard Nature, Featured, Melvin Hazen Park, News, Parks and Streams, Rock Creek Park, Soapstone Valley, Sustainability

Round up invasive weeds at the first Rock Creek “Weed Wrangle” on Sept. 25

September 9, 2021 by FHC 4 Comments

Saddle up, pardners. Volunteers are being deputized to round up some weedy invaders in and around Rock Creek Park. On Saturday, September 25th (which is also National Public Lands Day), […]

Filed Under: Broad Branch, Melvin Hazen Park, News, Parks and Streams, Rock Creek Park, Volunteer in Our Parks

A more colorful Connecticut Ave. and an easier trek on the Melvin Hazen trail after weekend volunteer work

March 29, 2021 by FHC Leave a Comment

Volunteers were busy in our neighborhood on Saturday. Van Ness Main Street: “Thank you to yesterday’s wonderful volunteers for helping us plant flowering pollinators in front of the small businesses […]

Filed Under: Main Street, Melvin Hazen Park, News, Things To Do, Volunteer in Our Parks

Do something nice for your wild neighbors: FrogWatch, watershed cleanups and pollinator plantings on tap

March 15, 2021 by FHC Leave a Comment

Our local parks and streams have given us places of respite and recreation in a stressful year. This spring we have several opportunities to return the favor. Events below include […]

Filed Under: Featured, Melvin Hazen Park, News, Parks and Streams, Rock Creek Park, Things To Do, Volunteer in Our Parks, You're Invited

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Neighborhood in the News: “Father of Black basketball” honored at UDC. And goodbye (maybe) to a “legendary” Burger King

March 10, 2021 by FHC Leave a Comment

“The father of Black basketball”: UDC is renaming its sports complex after Edwin B. Henderson, a 1904 graduate of Miner Teachers College, a predecessor of the university. “Henderson introduced the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Melvin Hazen Park, Neighborhood in the News, News, UDC

On March 4th, learn more about the man behind Melvin C. Hazen Park – and the people he helped displace at Fort Reno Park

February 22, 2021 by FHC 4 Comments

For decades as a city surveyor, Melvin C. Hazen had a vision for Tenleytown, which included a park at Fort Reno. Standing in his way – a community of Black […]

Filed Under: Black Lives Matter, Melvin Hazen Park, News, Things To Do, You're Invited

This MLK weekend, do something good for the national park in our backyard

January 11, 2021 by FHC Leave a Comment

Rock Creek Park has been an oasis for many of us during the long months of the pandemic. This weekend is a good time to return the favor. The Martin […]

Filed Under: Melvin Hazen Park, News, Peirce Mill, Volunteer in Our Parks

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