Schoolyard Habitat and Conservation Landscape Toolkits

As communities all across the Chesapeake Bay region maximize the ecological potential of their community spaces, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Schoolyard Habitat Partnership recently released two toolkits Schoolyard Habitat Program Development Toolkit and Toolkit for Conservation Landscaping for Community Spaces to help them. The toolkits are designed to help school and community leaders access the best available resources to create excellent Schoolyard Habitat and conservation landscaping projects.

Excellent Schoolyard Habitat projects need support both with on-the-ground project implementation and classroom curricular-connections. The Schoolyard Habitat Program Development Toolkit enables providers of environmental education programs to assist schools in the development of sustainable, integrated schoolyard habitat projects.

Conservation landscapes are designed, planted and maintained to benefit people and the local ecosystem. The Toolkit for Conservation Landscaping for Community Spaces provides a framework for project designers to achieve a balance between ecologically significant landscaping and community engagement.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Chesapeake Bay Field Office Schoolyard Habitat Partnership is a cooperative effort with Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education and the NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training Program. The toolkits of the Schoolyard Habitat Partnership cannot be copied for resale, however they may be copied for education.

Schoolyard Habitat Program Development Toolkit

Toolkit for Conservation Landscaping for Community Spaces