Are you looking for the perfect gift to bestow upon your river-enthusiastic loved ones this winter? You can support Friends of the North Fork AND give those folks gifts they will love this holiday season; have a look at the…
Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River is pleased to announce a 2021 Autumn Lecture Series entitled - 'The State of the River: Its Health and Ours' to be hosted on Zoom. During the series we will be…
For our final 'Voices of the Shenandoah: In Story and Song' event this season, Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River partnered with Swover Creek Farms and Brewery in putting on a concluding storytelling and live music event from 6…
Thank you to the nearly 175 people who gathered with us at Fort Valley Nursery’s outdoor venue to celebrate the work of Friends of the North Fork to support the health of our beautiful River. Bid cards flew high on…
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…
After nearly five weeks with no rain in the Shenandoah Valley, as FNFSR's Program Coordinator (Mariama) and Education Support Specialist (Daisy) drove up to the venue for Friends of the North Fork's second Voices of the Shenandoah event, it was…
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…