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Join Rock Creek Conservancy, the National Park Service, and Stream Team Leader Jonas Furberg of Blue Planet Scuba for a socially-distant trash cleanup at Peirce Mill. This event is part […]
Join the National Park Service, Rock Creek Conservancy, and Weed Warrior Rena Subotnik for a morning of socially-distant service, removing invasive plants from Melvin Hazen East. Find details and register […]
Join Van Ness Main Street and Master Gardener Kathy Sykes for planting events in Van Ness and Forest Hills. All supplies will be provided. Please bring gardening gloves and your favorite gardening tools if you have them. Please email Kathy to let her know your available dates and times, along with your cell phone number […]
Join the National Park Service, Rock Creek Conservancy, and Weed Warrior Rena Subotnik for a morning of socially-distant service. Under Rena's leadership, volunteers will remove invasive plants from Melvin Hazen […]
Join the National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy for a socially-distant outdoor invasive removal event. For details and to register: https://events.time.ly/8ib56fp?event=43151287
Volunteers will participate in a socially-distant invasive plant removal in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. When: Saturday, January 15th from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Where: Volunteers will meet at Picnic Grove 1. Detailed instructions and directions will be sent to all registered participants prior to the event. Volunteers must wear a mask […]
Volunteers will participate in a socially-distant invasive plant removal in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. When: Saturday, January 15th from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Where: Rock Creek Conservancy's Trail 9 mini-oasis project site. Meet near the hill entrance to the Western Ridge trail, near the intersection of Broad Branch and Beach Drive […]
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., join the National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy for an afternoon of socially-distant service. The volunteers will focus on removing invasive […]
Join the National Park Service, Rock Creek Conservancy, and Weed Warrior Rena Subotnik for a morning of socially-distant service, removing invasive plants from Rock Creek Park's Melvin Hazen tributary. Find more information and register here.
Join the National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy for a socially-distant outdoor invasive removal event at Melvin Hazen West. For details and to register: https://www.rockcreekconservancy.org/calendar#event=43151294
SPRING NOW: COMMUNITY PLANTING WITH KATHY SYKES Help bring some color to the corridor and the small businesses along Connecticut Ave between Van Ness Street and Nebraska Ave, every Saturday […]
Help prepare the young fruit trees in the orchard at Peirce Mill. Learn more at https://www.friendsofpeircemill.org/event/extreme-cleanup-at-peirce-orchard/
To help us celebrate Forest Hills Connection's tenth anniversary, Steve Saari, who led the Broad Branch Stream daylighting project for the DC Department of Energy and the Environment, will lead us on a tour of the site. The project was one of FHC's news subjects, and is an ongoing obsession... er... interest. We’ll meet just […]
Join Rock Creek Conservancy, the National Park Service, and Rock Creek Fellow Ruth Wielgosz in Rock Creek Park for an invasive plant removal event. Learn more and register at https://publicevents.secure.force.com/volunteerEventRegisterPageBootstrap?cid=7014u000001kdp0AAA
Find details here on a kid-friendly volunteer activity that will make Connecticut Avenue friendlier to birds and pollinating insects. Community service hours are available for teens. Sundays through August from […]