2nd Great Falls Winter ID Walk With Carrie Blair

Date/Time
Saturday, February 21, 2015
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location
Great Falls Park

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VNPS programs are free and open to the public; however, there is a park admission fee of $5 per passenger vehicle.   

 Registration for field events is required. 

Please RSVP through Eventbrite at https://vnps20150221.eventbrite.com

Details and starting point for the walk will be sent to registered participants.

Our January field trip was so successful and there were so many on the wait list, we are offering a second opportunity to come on a hike with Carrie Blair in the wilds at Great Falls Park.  The diverse habitats of bottomland woods, moist, rich woodlands and dry uplands offer a wide variety of native trees to learn to identify.  Carrie Blair will discuss bark, branching, buds and silhouette, plus other clues including leaf scars and seeds.

Carrie Blair is a Virginia Master Naturalist and has served as a Front Royal/Warren County Tree Steward since 2010.  She has volunteered as a docent at the State Arboretum of Virginia at the Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, Virginia, and has led hundreds of tree identification walks and classes.  She has been a board member, including president, of the VNPS Piedmont Chapter for many years.   Carrie lives in the Marshall, Virginia, area and knows the land intimately by walking and riding horses.

Dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes or boots.  Binoculars will be helpful plus ocular/loupe/magnifier to see leaf scars.  Event will be canceled if forecast includes low 20s, hazardous road conditions or rain/ice/snow.