Welcome to the New River Valley Outdoors Etc listserv. Those interested in exploring the New River Valley are invited to share information on regional events related to native plants, ecology, hikes, paddles, birding, nature-related art, and other outdoor or ecologically oriented events in the New River Valley of southwest Virginia. Please feel free to share information about upcoming events or invite the group to join you for an outing.

Those interested in receiving questions and answers about mid-Atlantic ecology should consider joining the nativeplantseast@yahoogroups.com listserv. Those interested in discussions about outdoor activities in the Blacksburg area should visit the outdoor forum care of Craigslist at http://forums.blacksburg.craigslist.org/?forumID=16.

The listserv was started in October 2007 by members of the New River Valley Group of the Sierra Club http://virginia.sierraclub.org/newriver. Initial membership must go through the moderator in order to preempt spam. Every member can send announcements to the group (replies go to the sender by default).

It is not necessary to join Yahoo! to join the listserv. Those interested in joining, but preferring not to go through the Yahoo! interface, can simply send a request to join directly to Nancy at the address below.

Please send suggestions or questions to Nancy Adamson at nladamson@gmail.com.

Announcements about political issues are also welcome, but the list is not designed to be a discussion forum. If we find there is interest in more of a discussion-oriented or activist-oriented list once people join and start posting, we may create a separate listserv for that.