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The invasion of the ‘tree snatchers’

September 7, 2023 by FHC 1 Comment

by Adam Sieminski Winter creeper (Euonymus fortunei) is a tenacious, perennial, and evergreen plant that grows as a sprawling groundcover or climbing vine. Those qualities make it attractive to many local […]

Filed Under: Featured, Home Front, In the Garden, News, Rock Creek Park, Sustainability, Volunteer in Our Parks

Meet Your Neighbors: Thanks to this Weed Warrior, invasive plants don’t stand a chance

September 6, 2023 by FHC 1 Comment

by Marlene Berlin John Burwell has appeared on our pages several times over the past three years for his work as a volunteer caregiver of our daylighted and restored streams, […]

Filed Under: Broad Branch, Featured, Forest Hills, Linnean Park, Meet the Neighbors, News, Parks and Streams, Sustainability, Volunteer in Our Parks

Rock Creek Conservancy: Protecting a DC oasis – and the “lungs” of the city

August 27, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Mark Moran Rock Creek Park is an oasis in the city, in more ways than one. “One of my greatest pleasures is to go alone into the peaceful setting […]

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

August in the Neighborhood: Play tourist, learn to do-si-do, and watch someone else do the dancing

August 1, 2023 by FHC 1 Comment

We’ve noticed a change in around the neighborhood over the past couple of weeks: There’s hardly any traffic. We’ve seen fewer drivers and fewer pedestrians. Even during rush hours, there […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Hillwood Museum, News, Peirce Mill, Rock Creek Park, Shop & Eat Local, Things To Do, Volunteer in Our Parks

June at Peirce Mill: West African dance, artist-led “Create by the Creek” workshops

April 12, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Angela Kramer The Friends of Peirce Mill and Rock Creek Park have put together a full calendar of free events for the 2023 milling season. Our new summer dance […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Peirce Mill, Rock Creek Park, Style, Things To Do, Volunteer in Our Parks

How DC’s oldest Boy Scout troop built a new bridge in Linnean Park

January 27, 2023 by FHC 3 Comments

by John Burwell One weekend in early January, William Wales, a junior at Jackson-Reed High School, led Boy Scout Troop 100 in building and installing a boardwalk bridge over a […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured, News, Parks and Streams, Volunteer in Our Parks

Local MLK weekend service events include Rock Creek Park cleanups

January 10, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

As they have done for the past 12 years, volunteers will spend the Martin Luther King holiday weekend sprucing up Rock Creek Park and its tributaries. Rock Creek Conservancy and […]

Filed Under: News, Parks and Streams, Sustainability, Volunteer in Our Parks

Young volunteers are replacing a rotting bridge on the Linnean Park trail

January 5, 2023 by FHC 3 Comments

by John Burwell Visitors to Linnean Park the weekend January 7th and 8th will be unable to cross the old cut log footbridge, as a new boardwalk bridge will be […]

Filed Under: Featured, Forest Hills, News, Parks and Streams, Sustainability, Volunteer in Our Parks

Whether we whack ’em, or wrangle ’em, we can do something about invasive, overgrown weeds

September 19, 2022 by FHC 2 Comments

by Ken Sands Forest Hills residents who’ve used the sidewalk on Albemarle between Connecticut and the entrance to Soapstone Valley know the perennial problem of tall weeds choking off access […]

Filed Under: Featured, Forest Hills, News, Volunteer in Our Parks

Neighborhood August to-do list: Learn about trees, frogs and the moon, and picnic like a Hillwood heiress

August 5, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

Rock Creek Conservancy’s 2022 summer fellows put their own spin on the organization’s community engagement efforts in July, organizing a spoken word performance and a “full moon gathering.” They’re not […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Broad Branch, Hillwood Museum, Local Attractions, News, Peirce Mill, Rock Creek Park, Things To Do, Volunteer in Our Parks

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