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Join National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy for a habitat restoration service event. Volunteers will be restoring a section of Melvin Hazen West, one of the Conservancy's five mini-oases. This service event will involve covering previously cut bamboo with landscaping fabric, installing coir logs for support, and more. Find more information and register here
Join National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy for a habitat restoration service event. Volunteers will be restoring a section of Melvin Hazen West, one of the Conservancy's five mini-oases. This service event will involve covering previously cut bamboo with landscaping fabric, installing coir logs for support, and more. Find more information and register here
Volunteers will join National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy at the Conservancy's Melvin Hazen mini-oasis restoration site to plant native species. Native plants are important to native wildlife and are critical for ecosystem health. Find more information and register here.
Volunteers will join National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy at the Conservancy's Melvin Hazen mini-oasis restoration site to plant native species. Native plants are important to native wildlife and are critical for ecosystem health. Find more information and register here.
Join Rock Creek Conservancy, National Park Service, and Weed Warrior Rena Subotnik in an effort to remove invasive plants from Melvin Hazen East. Find information and register here.
Join Rock Creek Conservancy for its virtual Stream Team Leader Training. This training will prepare volunteers to become Stream Team Leaders and provide tools to help individuals steward the Rock Creek watershed. Stream Team Leaders are dedicated volunteers that work with the Conservancy to host their own trash cleanups and increase stewardship actions within their […]
Under the guidance of Van Ness Main Street, socially distanced volunteers are planting daffodils, tulips and other spring bulbs along Connecticut Avenue every Saturday and Sunday until Nov 8th. The three time slots (11am to noon, noon to 1pm, 1pm to 2pm) are limited to 10 people at a time. Sign up for one or […]
Neighbors are invited to help maintain the rain gardens at Forest Hills Park (by the tennis courts) under the guidance of the Department of Parks and Recreation and the DC […]
#OptOutside on Black Friday and support our local waterways by completing an individual cleanup or other socially distant stewardship activity. Individual cleanups are just what they sound like: you, a […]
Join National Park Service and Rock Creek Conservancy for a habitat restoration service event. Volunteers will be restoring a section of Melvin Hazen West, one of the Conservancy's five mini-oases. […]
Rock Creek Conservancy and volunteers have planted native plants in the Melvin Hazen West restoration area. This volunteer event will build and install plant fences to help protec those new […]
Join the National Park Service, Rock Creek Conservancy, and Weed Warrior Rena Subotnik for a socially-distant outdoor invasive removal event. Volunteers will be removing English ivy from the Melvin Hazen […]
Join Rock Creek Conservancy and National Park Service for a socially-distant trash cleanup focusing on a section of park along Broad Branch Road NW. Find more information and register here.
This easy DIY community clean-up is perfect for all ages. Van Ness Main Street will be stationed outside of its office at 4340 Connecticut Ave, giving out plastic bags for […]
Help Van Ness Main Street bring some color to the corridor and the small businesses along Connecticut. The community is invited to help plant seeds that will become colorful wildflowers, […]