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7Opequon Elementary School | Spring 2021

Opequon Elementary School | Spring 2021

Jun 2021 Opequon Elementary School Berkeley County School Berkeley County Public Service Storm Water District, Cornerstone Lawn Services LLC

Opequon Elementary School, located in Martinsburg, West Virginia celebrated a breezy Earth Day outside planting 16 native trees on school grounds. Two Pre-kindergarten, six kindergarten, four first grade, and six second grade classes participated in the tree planting and were taught about the environmental benefits and proper care and maintenance of the trees. Classroom teachers […]

8Potomac Valley Audubon Society | Spring 2021

Potomac Valley Audubon Society | Spring 2021

Jun 2021 Stauffer's Marsh Nature Preserve Berkeley County Parks & Trails

Potomac Valley Audubon Society, a local chapter of the National Audubon Society, based out of Shepherdstown, WV, hosted their first Carla Hardy WV CommuniTree planting at Stauffer’s Marsh Nature Preserve near Hedgesville, West Virginia.  The Project Leader, KC Walters, recruited and organized volunteers throughout the local community to help plant the 24 trees awarded. In […]

9Warm Springs Watershed Association

Warm Springs Watershed Association

May 2021 Berkeley Springs Morgan County Private Property

Spring 2019, Warm Springs Watershed Association (WSWA) hosted a YourBMP program watershed-wide.  The Project Leader, Michael Brookes, recruited and organized interested participants that purchased trees for their homes and businesses.  This was WSWA’s second season participating in YourBMP’s Turf-to-Tree program, allowing residents 1-3 large stock trees, and businesses a maximum of twelve large stock trees. […]

10Petersburg Elementary

Petersburg Elementary

May 2020 Petersburg Elementary Grant County Private Property
Spring 2019, teachers and staff from Petersburg Elementary participated in Your Community BMP.  The Project Leader and teacher, Julie Colaw, recruited and organized staff that purchased trees to plant at their homes.  Petersburg Elementary chose to participate in YourBMP’s Turf-to-Tree program, which provides 1-2 large stock trees to each participant, large and small trees were [...]
11Growing Native Update

Growing Native Update

Dec 2019 Multiple County School

Growing Native continues to grow saplings and communities throughout the Potomac River watershed. Cacapon Institute continues to support Potomac Watershed Partnership’s Growing Native program in the Potomac headwaters of West Virginia and Virginia. Through in-classroom lessons and schoolyard projects focused on growing native trees, schools have access to outdoor learning and help protect rivers and […]

12Charles Town Middle School

Charles Town Middle School

Dec 2019 Charles Town Middle School Jefferson County School

Noticing a puddling “mud hole” on campus, sixth graders at Charles Town Middle School took action to extend their rain garden, fixing the puddles with native garden plants. After experiencing pooling water in the school’s courtyard, (which staff coined the “mud hole” as students continuously tracked mud into the school), sixth grade teacher Stephanie Diamond […]

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