Join RCA and members of the Rivanna Forest Restoration Partnership for a bioblitz in Darden Towe Park. A bioblitz is a communal effort to find, identify, and record as many species as possible within a designated area. This data will be collected using the mobile app, iNaturalist. We encourage people of all experience levels and [...]
Join RCA and members of the Rivanna Forest Restoration Partnership for an invasive management workday in Darden Towe Park. We will be managing invasive plants that are threatening native tree canopy in a high-priority forest area. RCA will provide needed tools like loppers, pruners, gloves, and safety glasses, but feel free to bring your own. [...]
Blue Ridge PRISM is hosting a “brown bag” webinar featuring guest speaker Lisa Wittenborn, Ph. D., executive director at Rivanna Conservation Alliance. Lisa will discuss what makes streams healthy and how invasive plants in riparian areas disrupt the food web and the entire ecology of the waterway, threatening the birds, pollinators, and other wildlife we [...]
Claire and Sophie will be representing RCA from 2-6pm at the Albemarle County Fair at James Monroe’s Highland. Tickets can be purchased at the door (cash or card) and are $5 per person and free for children under 6 years of age. Come by for exhibits, home arts, family entertainment, live music, livestock, and fun [...]
Join RCA and partners of the Rivanna Forest Restoration Partnership for an invasive management workday in Riverview Park. We will be managing invasive plants that are threatening native tree canopy in a high-priority forest area. RCA will provide needed tools like loppers, pruners, gloves, and safety glasses, but feel free to bring your own. Volunteers [...]
Join RCA and members of the Rivanna Forest Restoration Partnership for an invasive management workday in Darden Towe Park. We will be managing invasive plants that are threatening native tree canopy in a high-priority forest area. RCA will provide needed tools like loppers, pruners, gloves, and safety glasses, but feel free to bring your own. [...]
This training is designed for current benthic monitors who collect benthic field samples and/or participate in lab days. The aim of this workshop is to develop identification skills, refine family-level characteristics, and cover any topics monitors may need additional help with. Advanced training is required to become a certified benthic monitor and adopt benthic sites. [...]
This training covers the fundamentals of benthic macroinvertebrate sampling; catching and identifying aquatic invertebrates for the purpose of evaluating water quality and stream health. This training includes both a classroom and a hands-on field component. In the classroom, we will go over RCA's Biological Monitoring Program, the organisms we monitor, our sampling protocol, and how [...]
This training covers the fundamentals of benthic macroinvertebrate sampling; catching and identifying aquatic invertebrates for the purpose of evaluating water quality and stream health. This training includes both a classroom and a hands-on field component. In the classroom, we will go over RCA's Biological Monitoring Program, the organisms we monitor, our sampling protocol, and how [...]
Join RCA for our biggest community watershed cleanup of the year! Signups will open soon for the 7th Annual Rivanna River Round-Up. Cleanups will take place on and around Saturday, September 19th, all across the Rivanna River watershed. Have an idea of a site that could use a group cleanup? Nominate a site here!