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Join Us for our Holiday Nature Night: A Bird Named Hope Speaker: Biologist Fletcher Smith, The Center for Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary/Virginia Commonwealth University Thursday, December 10, 2010, 6 p.m. Where: Merrifield Garden Center, 12101 Lee Highway, Fairfax Cost: FREE
Research biologist Fletcher Smith will talk about Hope, a whimbrel that has flown more than 10,000 miles on its migratory journey, and other birds that are being tracked as part of a collaborative effort by The Center for Conservation Biology and the Virginia chapter of The Nature Conservancy to help conserve the declining shorebird species. Robert Ake from the Virginia Society of Ornithology also will speak about maintaining the official records of birds recorded in the Commonwealth of Virginia. _________________________________________________________________________________________ In September we had this event: Global Warming - an update Speaker: Nathan Currier Thursday, September 17 at 7 pm Where: Hidden Oaks Nature Center, 7701 Royce St., Annandale, VA Cost: FREE
An update from The Climate Project on the fight against global warming. The Climate Project is the organization founded by former Vice President Al Gore and District Manager Peter Kelley will talk about what has appened since the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was released in 2006.
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