Objective 2: Operation and Design of School Building
Best Management Practices for Habitat Restoration
THES Media Resources:
Habitat
Restoration
Online Resources:
Please remember to call Miss Utility before doing any digging on your school
property.
http://mddnr.chesapeakebay.net/eyesonthebay/index.cfm - Information on Bay
Grasses in Classes
www.wetland.org/
- Environmental Concern, Inc. Training and professional development
www.nwf.org/backyard
- National Wildlife Federation
www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/school/SYasst.htm - List from USFWS, Chesapeake
Bay Office of state and local contacts for schoolyard habitat projects
www.qacps.k12.md.us/cms/sci/intr/ecohab.htm - Centreville Middle School's
approach -- one of the first and one of the best to conducting a schoolyard
habitat assessment
www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/treemendous - From MD DNR, Forest Service. Tree
plantings, Tree-mendous MD program, PLANT community recognition
http://uwarboretum.org/eps/ - From Wisconsin, but loaded with ideas for
projects and how to incorporate into the classroom
www.cbtrust.org/projectsuggestions1.html from the Chesapeake Bay Trust --
ideas in addition to grant applications for funding
http://www.ecoschools.com/Wildlife/Wildlife_wSidebar.html - International,
but has many ideas
www.cbf.org - From the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation; lots of ideas, programs that they sponsor
http://www.for-wild.org/hotlinks.html - Information on native plant
landscaping and organizations that assist with planting plans
http://www.gnps.org/SCHOOL2.HTM - Schoolyard gardening resources--excellent
list
www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/nursery.htm - List of native plant nurseries
http://birds.cornell.edu
- Project Feeder Watch and other bird related monitoring
http://mdflora.org - The MD
Native Plant Society provides plant lists, information on native plants and
recommendations on environmentally responsible control of invasive species
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