Speaker Claudia Donegan, Director of the Center for Habitat Restoration, Maryland Department of Natural Resources Chesapeake and Coastal Service, presented an informative slideshow on how beavers naturally provide intact natural systems giving any ecosystem much needed ecological capital and how increasing the beaver population will restore Maryland’s ecological services. Ecological capital equals ecological services! Examples of the services beavers provide include flood control, nutrient processing, stormwater and groundwater management, erosion control, and creation of habitats for aquatic, rare, threatened, and endangered species. And who knew Crofton had it's own prehistoric giant beaver population! To read an article by Claudia that appeared in the Maryland Natural Resources Magazine, winter 2021 on beavers as a keystone species, click the button below. To read about Crofton's prehistoric beaver population, click the button below. Margo Antonelli, Second Vice President, installed Heather Marken, sponsored by C.J. Salisbury, as a member of CVGC. Welcome Heather! The February hostess team, Lois Nichols (coordinator), Beverly Frye, Becky Hogan, Nancy Percivall and Angela Wetzel, decorated with a 60's Flower Power theme to get members excited for our upcoming flower show.
Your garden can be a refuge of biodiversity, housing many different living things. A vast majority are insects. How do these insects and their relatives make our big world go round? Speaker Dr. Michael Raupp, Professor Emeritus of Entomology and Extension Specialist at the University of Maryland and The Bug Guy of media (television, radio, and magazine) renowned as he explains the parts they play in ecosystem services, in linking members of food webs, and in the pollination of plants and biological control. Members will have a greater appreciation for the important roles these little life forms – these insects – play in the ecology of your garden.
Dr. Raupp's YouTube channel reaches tens of thousands of viewers weekly in more than 200 countries around the world. Click the button below, to view his YouTube channel. Protect the Chesapeake Bay is a series of various conservation measures that farmers use to produce healthy crops, combat climate change, and protect water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Homeowners can apply these same steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their landscape, build healthy soils to store carbon, and manage stormwater runoff around their home.
To view the brochure, click the button below. Invest In Our Planet is the EARTHDAY.ORG Earth Day theme for 2022. Click the button below for more information on actions and tips that you can do to make a difference – every day of the year.
Leave the leaves — they offer a lot of benefits for wildlife and your garden. Click the button below for tips on how to minimize the time you spend raking this autumn and maximize the benefit to wildlife and the greater environment that fallen leaves offer.
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