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The Roanoke Valley Chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalists invite you to become partners with us as we get individual properties, as well as business and other community resources certified as wildlife habitats, so that we can have the entire valley certified as a wildlife habitat to protect the great biodiversity of the Roanoke Valley. The Virginia Master Naturalist program has three goals: 1. Natural Resource Service - To provide, promote and fulfill volunteer service while recognizing and utilizing sound natural resource management, enhancement and conservation practices in accordance with the Partners’ and Program’s mission. 2. Enhancement of public understanding through education and outreach - To enhance existing natural resources education and outreach activities by providing natural resources and interpretive training at the local level, thereby developing a supply of dedicated and informed volunteers. 3. Develop a volunteer network - To develop a Virginia Master Naturalist volunteer network that can be self-sufficient.
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The Red Clay Valley Scenic Byway is a local treasure. The Byway is comprised of 28 secondary roads within the Red Clay Creek watershed and is the first in the U.S. to be based on the watershed model. This unique model strengthens the communities’ ability to protect the water quality of Red Clay Creek by preserving the land in the watershed. The valley includes spectacular natural areas including Red Clay Ravine, Red Clay Creek, Burrows Run, and Coverdale Woods. These natural areas sustain an abundance of plants and animals and contain some of the richest old growth forest in the Red Clay Creek watershed. The Red Clay Valley Scenic Byway and Wildlife Habitat Community preserves and protects the unique historic, scenic, and natural qualities of the Red Clay watershed, which includes Hockessin, Mt. Cuba Center, Coverdale Farm Preserve, Auburn Heights, Wilmington & Western RR and many homes and businesses. Along the Byway you can explore the forest of the Red Clay Ravine Natural Area, and hike through woodlands, meadows, and marsh at the Delaware Nature Society’s Ashland Nature Center. Learn more about native plants at Mt. Cuba Center and visit Auburn Heights Preserve to see the largest collection of operating steam cars in the world. Steam train enthusiasts can ride on the Historic Red Clay, Inc (Wilmington and Western) railway from Greenbank to Hockessin.
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The Lancaster County Conservancy is excited to announce a partnership with the National Wildlife Federation to form a Community Wildlife Habitat initiative. The initiative’s goal is to work with local property owners, schools and communities to encourage the planting of native plants and trees as well as gardens that reduce stormwater runoff while providing habitat that will benefit wildlife and attract pollinators. Once installed these gardens can be certified by the National Wildlife Federation. With a critical mass of certified gardens the goal is to create corridors for wildlife to thrive and have the entire county of Lancaster certified as a Community Wildlife Habitat. To learn more about the program or to have someone visit your property please email Linda Ferich at lferich@lancasterconservancy.org Habitat Stewards Habitat Stewards mentor others to create habitat for homes, businesses, community spaces, places of worship, and schools for certification. Pa Master Naturalists & Habitat Stewards, Allison Zechman, Margie Hall, and Linda Ferich, are conducting a course to train volunteers to become certified Habitat Stewards. A 24-hour training course begins March 20, 2018 and covers topics such as the relationship between wildlife and plants, exceptional habitat features, site analysis, sustainable practices and invasive plants. Each steward receives resource information related to gardening for wildlife. If you have interest in gardening for wildlife, desire to help others and want to be a member of the conservancy’s Habitat Steward team, please contact us at lferich@lancasterconservancy.org
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Valley Center is a small rural community in North East San Diego County with a population now over 9,000. We believe that as citizens living on buffer zones between wild places and cities it is our responsibility to educate ourselves on local wildlife and plant species. We seek to inform our community about animals living in our backyards and turning our homes into wildlife friendly spaces. We are a network of residents and community leaders seeking the common goal of protecting wildlife and the land that supports and nurtures all life.
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Margate is a city in Broward County, Florida, and is part of the Miami metropolitan area.
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The Historic Fourth & Gill Neighborhood is a diverse inner city historic neighborhood adjacent to The Old City and Downtown Knoxville. The neighborhood features more than 280 residential structures, including single-family houses, duplexes, apartment buildings, and a brand-new senior living facility. The district also contains one school (now Brownlow Lofts) and three churches. It is a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood, perfect for walking downtown or strolling and admiring the selection of historic homes, the majority of which are Queen Anne and Craftsman styles. The Fourth & Gill Neighborhood enjoys a long history of civic-minded activity and is home to an active social network with a strong collection of organizers, activists, and creative people who continually renew the neighborhood with fresh events, energy, and collective vitality. Fourth & Gill is home to many residents that actively participate in Parks and Beautification efforts within the neighborhood. Some of these efforts include hosting mini art galleries, participating in annual neighborhood clean-up events, establishing the Golden Shovel award (described in next section), participating in the National Wildlife Federation’s Certified Wildlife Habitat program, and planting native plants on Gill Avenue and at the Neighborhood Community Center. This enthusiasm for improving parks and greenspace has led a group of passionate residents to establish a sub-group of the Fourth and Gill Neighborhood Organization Parks and Beautification, known as the Fourth & Gill Woolly Bears. This group works to improve Fourth & Gill’s unique urban ecosystem by providing habitat for wildlife. The Woolly Bears educate about and advocate for the use of native plants and informed land stewardship practices, which increase the beauty, health, and happiness in our community.
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Keowee Key is an active lifestyle community nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Upstate South Carolina, surrounded by Lake Keowee. With its wooded, natural home sites, extensive use of native plant species and sustainable landscape practices, Keowee Key is home to many pollinator species, large and small birds (especially heron and eastern blue birds), amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, deer and red fox.
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The town of Harwich, Massachusetts, incorporated in 1694, is located on the warm side of Cape Cod, offering town residents and tourists almost 11 miles of tidal shoreline along Nantucket Sound and Pleasant Bay. The town is made up of seven villages and four harbors as well as numerous freshwater ponds and two scenic river corridors, the Herring River and Muddy Creek. Along with this beautiful and diverse, yet fragile, landscape comes the responsibility of caring for and protecting it, an ongoing commitment of so many Cape Cod residents. The Garden Club of Harwich, founded in 1932 and with currently more than 175 members, cares for 19 public green spaces throughout the Harwiches and champions environmentally-friendly gardening practices. In addition, the Club has established "Earth First" grants for environmental projects in the Harwich schools. Harwich's NWF Community Wildlife Habitat project, "Harwich Habitats 4 Wildlife", initiated by a team from the Garden Club, looks forward to achieving town certification; a endeavor of collaboration with, among others, the town Conservation Commission, the Harwich Conservation Trust, and citizen education and participation.
