Sandy Impact - Hampshire Outdoors

Rather than cross-post, please check in on my Hampshire Outdoors Blog.   If it's safe, monitor your watershed through this event, or at least try to do so with online tools.  I'm happy to help.

Lauren T.'s Flood Mapping Tools

I accidentally posted this on my South Branch Watershed Blog, rather than our course blog. (It was relevant to the other blog, so it's still posted there):


From Lauren's Meanders to Mitigation blog: FEMA Flood Maps:

If anyone is interested in learning about floodplains and how that information is used for flooding mitigation, flood zone delineation, and building requirements, here is a link to the Map Service Center. Let me know if you have any questions about using the site!

Outdoors with ACE next month:

This is a good opportunity with kids or friends, or to meet green people.  

Be sure to mention that an eel or crayfish decal would be more appropriate.

Storm Drain Marking

Sunday, November 4
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Spout Run

   

Join us for a family friendly volunteer event where you will help to place storm drain markers that discourage dumping and encourage others help to keep our waters clean. We will be marking drains in the Spout Run area of Arlington.


Can't make it in November? Consider joining us in December!

 

Invasive Plant Removal 

Sunday, December 2
1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 
Lacy Woods Park 

Join us for fall invasive plant removal where you will be helping to remove invasive plants throughout Lacy Woods Park so that native species can thrive!  

Meeting location and additional details for each event will be sent to registered participants. To register, send an email to volunteer@arlingtonenvironment.org or call 703-228-6406 and be sure to tell us the event(s) for which you'd like to be registered.

Meeting Tonight - 7pm

I'm looking forward to lots of presentations tonight, and then some work time for you to maintain momentum with my direct help, or the help of others.

Jim

Agenda:

Reflective Writing - The Election and Natural Resources

Resources from the Saturday Trip
Map
Pimmit Run
C&O Canal
Flood videos
   - 1936 Flood simulation
   - video footage from 1936
   -  Chain Bridge 2011,  and another
Other Video
   - Canoeing Little Falls
   - Successful kayaker
   - Squirt video 2
   - Dickerson power plant
Trees

Presentations

Work Time

Chain Bridge tomorrow - 9am

In case you don't find it on your own from the Schedule link on the blog, this is just a reminder that tomorrow we'll be exploring the fall line of the Potomac, walking from Chain Bridge upstream to Lock 6, where the U.S. Whitewater team has modified the old feeder canal built by George Washington's Patowmack Canal Company.

Note that we'll be parking in the neighborhood way up the hill from the bridge.  Give yourself extra time - streets in that area are a little tricky.

Fall Line / Urban Stream Corridors

Chain Bridge, Little Falls, Locks 5 & 6

MAP:

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Grow-Out Stations

Here is a slide set describing school-based grow-out stations (and more):

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Software from Virginia Tech

Posted by Andrea Auerbach' Blog. 

Software from Virginia Tech

Need software like Office, Adobe, or ArcGIS? Virginia Tech offers a variety of free or discounted software to students: http://www2.ita.vt.edu/software/student/products/index.html