Go Green(UR) or Go Home! 🌎🔥

Great job this week to everyone!

Spent so much more time outside today!

Team let's close out the last day strong! Thanks for getting involved.

Ecochallenge was an amazing opportunity to hear local perspectives on environmental issues and learn more about their direct impacts

Such a great day for a walk 🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏿

Really loving the Ecochallenge! 🫡

Facts: Some of the biggest threats to forests in Virginia are exotic invasive species, parcelization and fragmentation, development, climate change, and historical mismanagement.

Facts: The World Wildlife Fund defines four ecoregions in Virginia: Middle Atlantic coastal forests near the Atlantic coast in the southeast corner of the state, Southeastern mixed forests on the Piedmont, Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests on the Appalachian Mountains, and Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests in the far west.

Facts: Nickname: The Old Dominion State. Statehood: 1788; 10th state. Population (as of July 2015): 8,382,993.

Facts: Pollution is a major issue for Virginia's waterways and the iconic Chesapeake Bay. Increasingly single use plastics and other litter have become a top pollution issue for our wildlife and ecosystems.