As a heavy blanket of snow recently fell over the Shenandoah Valley, the avian community was busy searching for seeds or dried berries still visible and accessible above the record-breaking storm

                         These butternut wooly worm larvae were seen along the Town of Washington, VA nature path in July 2015 Ranking near the top of the naturalist’s what-the-heck-is-that list is a

Black Oak – Quercus velutina In its heyday, the Virginia Oak Tannery in Luray, Virginia processed 1800 steer hides daily. Within the facility, up to 100,000 cattle hides were in

This last week in February*, the Shenandoah Valley has experienced record-breaking low temperatures, accompanied by blasts of frigid arctic wind whipping across fields and open land. In such conditions, evergreen