What we’re about
Happy New Year! 2025 schedule, all events 10 AM-noon:
Sunday, January 19 - Cancelled
Sunday, February 16
Sunday, March 16
Sunday, April 27 - It's also City Nature Challenge!
Sunday, May 18
Sunday, June 15
[July and August off]
*Saturday,* September 27 - National Public Lands Day
Sunday, October 19
Sunday, November 16
[December off for a well-deserved break]
We are National Park Service Weed Warriors and Arlington Regional Master Naturalists and we lead volunteers on the third Sunday of almost every month (we have a couple of Saturdays and some months off, see schedule) to stamp out invasive non-native plants at Theodore Roosevelt Island.
This work is vitally important to protecting the region’s remaining pockets of biodiversity. In many natural areas, plants that have co-evolved with birds and other local wildlife over thousands of years are being overwhelmed by fast-growing introduced species that strangle trees and eliminate food sources.
As a volunteer, you will:
- Work outdoors in woodlands, meadows, wetlands and other natural spaces
- Learn about invasives and native flora and fauna from Master Naturalists leading the activity
- Help remove non-native invasive plants so that native plants that support native wildlife will grow
- Interact with the public to explain our work
Come join us!
