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Along the Thornton River behind the Schoolhouse, Virginia Master Gardener and Master Naturalist Jack Price led a river walk to show the importance of vegetated stream buffers and rain gardens, as part of RappFLOWs stream buffer project. “People don’t know you’re what you’re doing unless you get out and meet with them,” Price said after the walk.
Later, landowners learned how to create a practical wildlife habitat plan from PEC’s Don Loock and Faren Wolter. Their workshop covered ways to determine what wildlife species may be on their land and how to use basic ecological principles to benefit their habitats.
There were also special programs for kids. They learned how about habitat fragmentation and the use of radio collars to track wildlife movements from educator Ricki Ferrence of the Smithsonian/National Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center (,CRC) in Front Royal. At the C/RC table, Ferrence also showed kids how to keep their own wildlife habitat journals.
Outdoors, a “stream sense” habitat observation activity led by middle school teacher Lisa
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