Volume 22 Issue 4, Winter 2017 Rockie Fera – September 2017 www.loudounfuneralchapel.com/obituaries/Francis-Fera/#!/Obituary Rockie was a renowned and highly respected educator, a tireless community volunteer, and an energetic advocate for the Thomas Balch Library and The Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy.During his 38-year tenure in education, he was awarded the Washington Post Distinguished Educational Leadership Award (1989), opened several new middle schools in Loudoun […]

Volume 22 Issue 4, Winter 2017 by Joe Coleman It was with great sadness that we heard of the passing of Dr. Stanwyn G. Shetler from his son, who wrote: “he was a man of many accomplishments who achieved a goal so few are able to claim; he left the world better than he found it.” Stan was a very […]

Volume 22 Issue 3, Fall 2017 by Rachel Weinstein, Rachel Milburn, Margaret Good and Joe Coleman On Wednesday, May 17, the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Waterford Foundation continued their conservation efforts at the Phillips Farm with the assistance of a number of volunteers from the Institute for Building Technology Safety (IBTS), using funds raised through the sale of […]

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Her name was Meredyth but everyone knew her as Merry, “just like in Christmas,” she told one person. When she died last week from a rare blood disease, Merry Breed was park manager at Claude Moore Park in Sterling, part of the Loudoun County Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services. “Merry was always interested […]

A five-year statewide effort is under way to document the bird species that breed in Virginia. The project is the 2nd Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas (VBBA2), the first such  survey since the first VBBA was completed 25 years ago, and you can help. The data collected will help document species distribution. This is important so it is […]

By Ann Garvey Casey Crichton was an active volunteer for Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and other organizations over the past eight years. Casey passed away on March 19 after a brief, but brave, struggle with brain cancer. He was 66. Casey’s love of nature was evident from his enthusiasm for helping to educate, restore habitat and […]

Happy New Year, all! I absolutely love the first few weeks of January. It’s a time to be optimistic, motivated, and inspired to do great things in the coming months, and it’s easy to be inspired when you’re surrounded by incredible volunteers, as we are at Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. This month in Volunteer Connection, I […]

This month in Volunteer Connection, we are featuring Sharon Plummer, the Managing Editor of our beloved Habitat Herald newsletter. While Sharon has served in this position since April of this year, she’s actually been volunteering with us since 2011. Initially, she came to be interested in our work when she noticed that our mission aligned […]

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy volunteers are a very active bunch. You’ll find us in the field monitoring, at annual events and fairs getting the word out on local conservation issues, along creeks and stream edges restoring or putting in riparian buffers, or even at schools empowering students to lead the way in protecting wildlife. So who […]