Stream Health

Other Resources

• Native plant lists and tools: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and partners offer the following to help you plan a variety of planting projects, from student streamside buffers to wildlife habitat to beneficial landscaping:
  • Maryland native plant lists and a more complete guide for the Chesapeake Bay region, Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping​.
  • Check out the new, online, interactive Native Plant Center to help you find native plants suited to your site.
  • If you need to identify or remove invasive plant species, Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas covers some of the most common problematic weeds, and offers suggestions for native species to use instead in landscaping.
  • Find native plants with this information and an online nursery list.
• Schoolyard Habitats: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s information on how to make your schoolyard more wildlife friendly.
• BayScapes: BayScapes is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service program that helps people to develop environmentally-sound landscapes benefiting people, wildlife, and the Chesapeake Bay. Native plant lists and other information can be used for restoration projects as well as home landscaping.
• Tree-Mendous Maryland: Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ program to encourage tree planting for all the benefits it provides.
• Ecoscaping: The Chesapeake Ecology’s Center general information on conservation landscaping.
• Maryland Department of the Environment Reclaim the Chesapeake Bay Campaign: encourages more Marylanders to get involved in restoring the Bay, and includes events and activities in which students/ schools can participate.