National and Federal Programs and Initiatives

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Habitat Portal
www.fws.gov/habitat/index.htm

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Chesapeake Bay Field Office:
Bayscapes
www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/Bayscapes.htm
Resources, plants lists, sources, how-to, fact sheets, design and
maintenance information

Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov/greenacres

Natural Resources Conservation Service
www.nrcs.usda.gov
To conserve and sustain our natural resources, Series of 4-page
Tip Sheets, Visual Stream Assessment

Clean Water Action
www.cleanwateraction.org

Environmental Defense Fund
www.environmentaldefense.org

Backyard Conservation Project
www.wildlifehc.org/managementtools/backyard.cfm
A joint effort of the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC), National
Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), and Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Backyard
Conservation project is designed to educate private homeowners
— who control some 92 million acres of developed land in the U.
S. — about simple, inexpensive conservation measures they can
put to work in their own backyards.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
www.nfwf.org
Grants, partnerships, distributing federal funds

The Nature Conservancy
www.nature.org
U.S. Ecoregions Map: 2004 Update

The Conservation Fund
www.conservationfund.org

Heritage Conservancy
www.heritageconservancy.org

Trees for Life
www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.eco.html
The work of Trees for Life is helping to pioneer the techniques of
ecological restoration, the newly-developing science of
rehabilitating degraded and damaged ecosystems,

The Natural Step
www.naturalstep.org

Windstar Wildlife Institute
Myersville, MD
www.windstar.org/wildlife

Wild Ones- Natural Landscapers, Ltd.
Appleton, WI
www.for-wild.org
Landscaping with Native Plants, available by sections online

Wildlife Habitat Council
Silver Spring, MD
www.wildlifehc.org
Corporate wildlife habitats


National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD)
www.nacdnet.org
NACD is the non-governmental, nonprofit organization that
represents nearly 3,000 conservation districts across the nation.  

Green Media Toolshed
www.greenmediatoolshed.org
Media training and communication for environmental
organizations: some free info, membership based

Greentreks Network
www.greentreks.org
GreenTreks creates entertaining programming about ordinary
people doing extraordinary things for the environment.

Scorecard
www.scorecard.org
Quality of air and water in your county

United Nations Environment Programme
Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign
www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/
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National and Federal Programs and Initiatives