This Earth Day weekend, Friends of the North Fork is organizing cleanups throughout the watershed as a part of the Shenandoah Riverkeeper's Trash Free Shenandoah project to clean up all the public access points for the Shenandoah River. Join us…
250 Years on the North Fork: Looking Back, and Looking Ahead Inspired by Shenandoah County's 250th anniversary this year, Friends has assembled a group of lectures to examine the history of human interaction with the North Fork over this time,…
Fly Fishing on the River 2022 This program is supported by the 2022 Virginia Wildlife Grant Program through a partnership between the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources and the Wildlife Foundation of Virginia. It is hosted by the Shenandoah Reel Women…
For individual registration, click here to visit our events page. Join Friends of the North Fork and the Virginia Department of Forestry in planting a 2-acre forested buffer along the banks of the North Fork in Toms Brook on April…
Deadline Extended: We are seeking an inspired environmental educator to join us as our new Watershed Education/Science Program Lead. This person will work on our team to help enhance our Education and Science programming. We are looking to bring a…
On Friday, September 17th, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) lifted its harmful algae bloom advisory for the 52.5 mile stretch of the North Fork, between Chapman's Landing and Riverton. Samples collected along the river on September 14th, 2021 showed…
Each year, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) samples for Smallmouth Bass (SMB) age 0 (approx. 60mm in length) in the Shenandoah River to gauge the success of spawning. Sampling generally occurs once in April-May and again in October. Samples…
The 2021 John Wilburn Scholarship awardee, Kathryn Motley, spent her summer in working with a JMU master student collecting benthic macro invertebrates in Smith Creek and other tributaries running through farmlands with best management practices in place. Read her letter…
The Virginia Department of Health has conducted additional testing on algal mats and water samples above and below the advisory area already in place. These tests identified cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins at some, but not all of the sites tested in…
The Virginia Department of Health has issued a Harmful Algae Bloom (HAB) advisory for a 8-mile section of the North Fork after detecting cyanobacteria toxins within algae mat material found at three sites—one at Lower River Road in Tom's Brook, one…