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Mary Hardcastle

W I L D L I F E H A B I T AT S

A close-up look at a box turtle is a first for these hesitant but curious kids in Baltimore's
Leakin Park, a 1,200-acre urban wilderness in Baltimore City.

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sion at the Department of Recreation
and Parks is to get folks out and using our parks, but we also focus on
preserving our parks and natural
resources. What we heard about the
Community Wildlife Habitat project rang true to our ears, so it was an
easy decision [to partner]. "

Sarah Hope

Partnering for Success
" Baltimore is one of the largest cities in the nation, " says Hilary Falk,
regional executive director for NWF.
" Because certification goals for each
community are individually set based
on the population of the community,
we were looking at a whole new level
of work compared to anything we've
done in the past. "
In order to receive its CWH certification, Baltimore would need to create wildlife habitats at more than 600
residences, six schools, and 10 parks,
businesses or other public spaces.
Knowing that it would be nearly impossible to achieve these goals on their
own, and also recognizing that many
groups were already doing outstanding
work to green the city, NWF staff began reaching out to potential partners
and asking them to join the Baltimore
CWH Advisory Committee earlier
this year. One of the first meetings was
with the Baltimore City Department
of Recreation and Parks (BCRP), arranged with the help of NRPA.
" We hit it off really well with NWF
in that first meeting, " says Fran Spero, BCRP's division chief for park
programming and events. " Our mis-

What made the partnership particularly appealing to city officials
was how it lined up with their own
goals and objectives. For example,
BCRP is currently the lead agency
on TreeBaltimore, an initiative that
aims to increase the city's tree canopy to 40 percent. Tree plantings organized through CWH will directly
apply to this to goal. Similarly, the
work with schools to create wildlife gardens fits in with The Greater Baltimore Children and Nature
Collaborative, an effort to connect
Baltimore kids with nature.
Other organizations were quick to
sign on as well, including Audubon
Maryland-DC, the Baltimore Office
of Sustainability, Blue Water Baltimore, the Greater Baltimore Children and Nature Collaborative, the
National Aquarium, the Parks and
People Foundation and the Reservoir Hill Improvement Council. Like
BCRP, many of these organizations
found a synergy between their work
and the work of NWF.

Baltimore youth pitch in at the Children's Garden in Carroll Park during a garden installation in October. The adjacent Southwest Baltimore Public Charter School will use the
garden as an outdoor classroom.

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