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

Friday, June 12, 2009

National Get Outdoors Day

We will be participating in the National Get Outdoors day (http://www.nationalgetoutdoorsday.org/) by interpreting a number of hikes at Salthouse Branch. We will meet at the Philpott Dam overlook at 1:00 and carpool to Salthouse Branch. The hikes will begin at 1:30 and last an hour.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Earth Force Training

June 10, 2009 we hosted an Earth Force training for 16 very eager community educators. We are currently coordinating new ways for us to communicate to enable us to organize Earth Force projects in the community. More information to come soon.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

NAME CHANGE!

Hello Everyone!

As we approched year two of this program our focus has to broaden to not only be a network of nature and outdoor outdoor organizations but to also provide more nature and outdoor programming for the community. In doing so we have changed our name from MHC Children and Nature Network to the Martinsvilel Henry County Community Nature Initiative!
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