About the Martinsville-Henry County Community Nature Initiative

With the support of The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont, Virginia Museum of Natural History and its partners, Dr. Denny Casey and Tamara Poles developed a new nature and outdoor initiative entitled the Martinsville Henry County Community Nature Initiative (MHC CNI). The CNI will serve as a clearinghouse for environmental information, use nature as a way to stimulate learning, develop opportunities for quality family time in the outdoors, and position VMNH as a leader in environmental education. CNI will serve as a means to provide hands-on, real-world opportunities for children, educators, and families to increase appreciation for nature and as an effective means to better understand and address community environmental issues.

Click the above CNI logo for official website and to access your Earth Week Passport!

Earth Week 2010 Highlights

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Special Kudos to the Patrick Henry Elementary School Earth Force Team!!!

Congrats to the Mrs. Kathy Campbell and her advance 5th grade class! They are the first team to go through the Earth Force program and develop a project in the Martinsville- Henry County area!! They used the Earth Force curriculum and the scientific method to identify environmental concerns within their school and they identified quite a few however the students felt that the best way to address the issues were to educate the students in their school about these concerns. Therefore, they came up with the idea of developing board games that educate the players about the environment. The students split up into small groups and created their own games. They have been documenting this process with pictures and discussions. The environmental concerns that they feel deeply about will be presented in a Power Point to.
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Partner updates

The Martinsville Leisure Services has changed their name to Martinsville Parks and Recreation.

Friedns of Philpot is currently working on the handicapped accessible park

ACE at Philpot Dam is curretnly constructing fitness interpretative trails

SEMAA is looking to improve race traffic during race weekend

Martinsville City schools is working on implementing a STEM class at the highschool that uses Earth Force and implementing agriculture in the classroom at the elementary and middle schools. They will be using earth force to train the teachers and for implementation of the class. Great job Martinsville City Schools.
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Earth Week April 17-24, 2010!

Keep your ears and eyes open, we are currently in the process of designing another Earth Week!! Earth Week will be April 17-24, 2010!!
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Frank Wilson Park Update

Wilson Park has officially opened its nature trail!!! The next time you visit the park take a trip on the new trail! It is located near the stone shelter behind the handicapped parking sign.

By popular demand, the park will be adding another 9 holes to its disc golf course!!!
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New Additions to the M-HC Parterships

We would like to give a warm welcome to two new additions to the M-HC Steering Committee which are the Smith River Sports Complex and the Henry County Martinsville Virginia Cooperative Extension. They will be a great asset to the committee.
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