Foundation Programs
Healthy Forests - Healthy Waters
Healthy Forests - Healthy Waters
In partnership with the Maryland Forest Service, the Chesapeake & Atlantic Coastal Bay Trust Fund and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, the Foundation has the largest tree planting program on private lands in MD.
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Mel Fellowship Program
Mel Fellowship Program
In conjunction with the Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources, the Foundation is able to offer annual Fellowships to 4 Maryland college students in order to support their matriculation in a fields related to Urban Forestry and Natural Resources.
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Greening the Gray
Greening the Gray
Each year local governments go through the budget cycle to set the focus, level and details of local expenditures. The process is divided into a focus on General Operations expenses (GO) and and Capital Improvement Programs (CIP).
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Forest Landowner Stewardship
Forest Landowner Stewardship
The Foundation works to increase public awareness of environmental concerns, good sustainable forestry practices and the many benefits of tree cover in rural, urban and suburban Chesapeake Bay areas.
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Biomass Energy
Biomass Energy
Sustainable Forestry relies on Markets-wood businesses gives landowners confidence in forestland investments with long time horizons. Lose the industry, fragment the forest.
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Natural Resources Careers Camp
Natural Resources Careers Camp
NRCC is a one-week educational opportunity for high school students to learn from industry professionals and college professors about careers and college studies in natural resources.
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Urban Forestry Careers Camp
Urban Forestry Careers Camp
The Foundation is developing a camp similar to NRCC but focused on Urban and Community Forestry.
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Big Tree
Big Tree
The Maryland Big Tree program is one of the largest, if not the largest, registries of Big Trees in the nation. Forestry Boards and their volunteers have actively catalogued the measurements and health of big trees for over 40 years and, in doing so, have encouraged the care and stewardship of both private and public-land trees all across Maryland.
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University Scholarships
University Scholarships
The Foundation's Scholarship committee administers the awarding of $1,000 scholarships to Maryland college students pursuing degrees in Natural Resources, Forestry, Land Management, Arboriculture, Horticulture, Urban Forestry or Environmental Sciences.
Maryland Urban & Community Forestry Committee
Maryland Urban & Community Forestry Committee
MUCFC is a volunteer group of citizens, professionals and government officials united to protect and enhance Maryland's forest ecosystems.
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Urban Green Legacy
Urban Green Legacy
ENDOWMENTS are under development (our only national program). The foundation is working to accelerate the pace of urban greening through the creation and management of significant privately funded endowments tied to specific metropolitan areas.
Current Partnerships
All of Maryland's Forest District Conservancy Boards
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
The Maryland Forest Service
The Chesapeake and Costal Bays Trust Fund
Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
Sustainable Maryland Program
Maryland Environmental Finance Center
Maryland Clean Energy Center
Rural Maryland Council
Maryland Forest Association
Maryland Wood Energy Coalition
Baltimore -Washington Partners for Forest Stewardship
Baltimore Wilderness