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

Thursday, July 16, 2009

CNI Monthly Themes

To raise awareness about nature and the outdoors, we are planning awareness months. We will promote environmental literacy in the community by providing nature and outdoor information, tips, and online video clips. August is National Parks Month!
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Screen on the Green!

M-HC CNI will be conducting a "Screen on the Green" once a month during the last Friday from April through September. "Screen on the Green" will feature a nature or environmentally educational box-office movie at an outdoor venue in the community. Come out and enjoy popcorn, drinks, games, and a movie for free!

Upcoming dates for Screen on the Green:
August 28, 2009
September 25, 2009
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Earth Force

The Martinsville- Henry County Earth Force is a team of educators who are trained to help our community identify potential environmental issues and address them appropriately. This team will help educate and encourage children in our community to take action in being good stewards of our environment. For more information go to http://mhcearthforce.blogspot.com/
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Tree Inventory

As part of the Wilson Park Tree Inventory, CNI will be conducting tree inventory trainings for interested memebers of the community please see the following link for more information http://www.wilsonparktreesurvey.blogspot.com/
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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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