SPRINGFIELD WEATHER

★ #SaveCinderBedWoods! ★
Join our online talk, May 6, 2025!
Join our nature walk, May 18, 2025!
- Updated April 25, 2025
Get your brain wet and your hands dirty!
Join with others to get the trash out of Accotink Creek. Beat the litterbugs!
- Updated March 4, 2025
Plans to expand sewer capacity promise devastation to the Hunters Branch tributary.
- Updated April 9, 2025
★ Speak up for parks! ★
Fairfax County is targeting the parks budget for disproportionate cuts again. Let your supervisors know we need Nature!.
- Posted April 10, 2025
The studies drag on, seemingly without end in sight. Can any viable solution ever be found for the future of Lake Accotink?
- Updated April 6, 2025
Floodplain property along Dogue Creek preserved, in a model for all such properties in all our watersheds.
- Updated April 6, 2025
★ Presidents Day ★
Thank you to all the neighbors who joined hands to to clean up dumping sites along Americana Drive in Annandale.
- Updated February 21, 2025
Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits.
- Updated February 6, 2025
This tributary stream is the focus of a consolidated long term project to restore watershed health. Learn what is proposed and where changes will happen.
- Updated March 28, 2025
Nature Forward's State of the Streams report is a unique snapshot of five streams in our region, including Accotink Creek.
- Posted July 17, 2024
★Contact your legislators now!★
Ask your Virginia senators and delegates to vote in defense of Accotink Creek!
- Posted January 15, 2025
A memorial tribute to our former Primary Conservator.
- Posted January 9, 2025
Constant water main breaks constantly dump layers of choking sediment in our streams.
- Posted January 12, 2025
Read about the adventures of Friends of Accotink Creek in defense of our watershed in 2024.
"GET YOUR BRAIN WET!"
- Posted December 10, 2024
A pair of water main breaks dump sediment into this Accotink Creek tributary that flows directly int Lake Accotink.
- Posted December 11, 2024
General election for Fairfax City Council, U.S. Senate, and U.S. President.
- Updated November 29, 2024
Yellow passionflowers and Purple passionflowers - be "passionate" about the imperiled Accotink Gorge. Our workdays to eliminate invasive wisteria threatening native flora make progress!
- Updated November 29, 2024
Thanks to all the Friends of Accotink Creek who joined the International Coastal Cleanup along our 12 adopted stretches of Accotink Creek in 2024. Thanks to all their efforts, we together removed 183 bags of trash, and junk ranging from a child’s scooter to a commercial cafeteria soup serving station.
- Posted Oct 19, 2024
Fairfax City seeks citizen input on an assessment of Accotink Creek in the City.
- Posted July 17, 2024
Volunteer turtle relocation project before pond dredging project.
- Posted June 26, 2024
Fairfax City's planning document holds significant promise for this section of Accotink Creek.
- Posted June 15, 2024
Canterbury Woods Elementary School students "follow the water" to learn about what lives in their neighboring stream, Long Branch central.
- Posted April 29, 2024
Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits.
- Updated March 30, 2024
Join this coalition to take an active role in ridding our county of invasive plants and supporting the planting of native species.
- Posted March 5, 2024
The Daventry Homeowners Association in Springfield begins a program of invasive species control on its common property.
- Posted March 4, 2024
Another oil spill at the same spot affected by a 2023 spill.
- Posted January 26, 2024
Another water main break dumps sediment and chlorinated water into an Accotink Creek tributary.
- Posted January 24, 2024
Winter salt hurts Accotink Creek. Citizen science documents the impact. Learn what can be done.
- Posted January 24, 2024
Ad hoc fixes are collapsing and the mud rolls on. When will it end?
- Updated September 25, 2023
What is the future of Friends of Accotink Creek? Is it bright new sunrise or dimming sunset?
- Posted January 23, 2020
Events & More
March 6, 2025
Globally Rare/Locally Hidden, How to save habitats before paving over them!
Saturdays in April & May
Join the campaign to get the trash out of
Accotink Creek!
May 18, 2025
Nature walk in the beautiful woods and rare wetlands threatened by the Cinder Bed Road Bikeway.

April 24 - May 3, 2025
Help with outreach to get permission to rescue trees on private property and rescue trees in parkland.
9:00 - 11:00 AM
April 26, 2025

Join your neighbors to support this major tributary of Accotink Creek!

June 6, 2025
9:30am - 11:30am
Volunteers assess ecological conditions in streams, based on the abundance of invertebrates.
Property enhancement equals watershed enhancement with Conservation Assistance $$$.

Third Tuesdays
Shape the Future of Friends of Accotink Creek. Join our monthly planning meetings!
Most weeks, dates vary
Join us in defending our parks from exotic green invaders.

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."




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