March 29, 2024
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Watershed Stewards Academy offers free seedlings to AA County residents

treesThe Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy, located at Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center in Millersville, MD, is offering free trees and shrubs to Anne Arundel County residents as part of the MD DNR Backyard Buffers program.

Backyard Buffers can be planted near any area where rain water flows: near roadside ditches, downhill from hard surfaces such as parking lots or rooftops, in areas that flood, or along streams, creeks, or rivers. To order seedlings, visit the Watershed Stewards Academy website: www.aawsa.org

A free workshop, held at 6:30 pm on March 26th at Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center, will cover ground preparation, tree spacing, tree planting, deer protection and maintenance of your seedlings/buffer. Register for the workshop visit the Watershed Stewards Academy website: www.aawsa.org

Seedlings must be pre-ordered and bundles will be available for pickup on March 25th -26th and should be planted shortly after pick up.

A program of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the Maryland Forest Service and the Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy, the Backyard Buffers program provides homeowners free trees and shrubs to create a native woodland buffer. A woodland buffer: enhances your landscape, creates habitat for wildlife and reduces the amount of sediment, fertilizer, and toxic materials that enter our waterways. Deep-rooted trees and shrubs can also stabilize stream banks, protecting them from erosion.

Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify, train and support community leaders, called Watershed Stewards, to take action with their neighbors to restore local waterways in Anne Arundel County. Watershed Stewards Academy is housed at Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center, which is the Outdoor and Environmental Education Center of Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

For more information visit our website, www.aawsa.org, open the attached flier, or contact Suzanne Etgen: [email protected] or (410) 222-3831

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