Chesapeake Bay Trust 2011 Grant Awards Our Bay

The Trust ( www.cbtrust.org ) is a state-chartered, nonprofit grant-making organization sparking on-the-ground change in communities throughout Maryland and the broader Bay watershed. O R Since its inception in 1985, the Trust has awarded $40 million in grants and engaged hundreds of CCBBTTRRUUSSTT G thousands of citizen stewards in projects that have a measurable impact on the Chesapeake Bay and Treasure the Chesapeake its tributaries. In 2011, the Chesapeake Bay Trust awarded 330 grants totaling $5.2 million throughout the Chesapeake Bay region, through its competitive grant programs and special initiatives. These grants directly engaged more than 110,000 students, teachers, and volunteers in environmental education, restoration and community engagement activities. Over the last year, Trust grantees planted almost 95,000 native trees and plants, removed more than 580 metric tons of trash from Maryland’s streams and rivers, and restored more than 70 acres of wetlands, oyster reefs, and streamside buffers. The Trust is supported by sales of the Maryland Treasure the Chesapeake license plate, donations to the Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species Fund on the Maryland State income tax form, donations from individuals and corporations, and partnerships with private foundations and federal and state agencies. Fully 90 percent of the Trust’s expenditures are directed to its Chesapeake Bay restoration and education programs. Grant recipients include nonprofit organizations, civic and community groups, schools and public agencies.

Allegany County- $13,835 Anne Arundel County - Anne Arundel County $715,947 Inspection Permits Allegany High School $35,000 $1,045 Annapolis High School For costs associated with For 22 students to participate in $285 developing watershed tree canopy goals. a field experience with the Karen For program costs associated Noonan Environmental Center. with 21 students attending an outdoor field experience. Anne Arundel County Public Evergreen Heritage Center Schools Foundation Annapolis High School $50,281 $10,400 $227 For support of the development and implementation of a To provide teacher development For costs associated with 30 comprehensive environmental training and the construction of students participating in the literacy program. a demonstration rain garden. Bay Grasses in Classes field experience. 60 West Street, Suite 405 Fort Hill High School Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center Annapolis, MD 21401 $2,390 Annapolis Maritime $35,000 PH: 410-974-2941 For student outdoor field experi - $25,000 To support the implementation FX: 410-269-0387 ences through the Chesapeake For support of the MUDDY of the Terrapin Connections www.cbtrust.org Bay Foundation’s Port Isobel FEET environmental education program in 60 schools. program. program for Annapolis area schools.

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Anne Arundel County Eastport Elementary School Maryland Association for Sherwood Forest Boys and (continued) $1,658 Environmental and Outdoor Girls Club Education Arlington Echo Outdoor For costs associated with the $1,808 Education Center installation of a rain garden and $15,000 For supplies and oysters to $30,000 seven rain barrels. For support of the 2011 engage students in an oyster Maryland Green School Youth aquaculture project. For support of the Watershed Summit. Stewards Academy. Eastport Yacht Club Foundation Smithsonian Environmental Maryland Dept. of Natural Research Center Chesapeake Bay Commission $1,000 Resources $200,000 $5,000 For costs associated with elementary school student $10,535 For the creation of a 3,300 To produce a report on Chesapeake participation in a youth oyster For the construction of a natural linear foot living shoreline Bay land conservation goals. program. play space at the Play and Learn project along the . Day Care Center. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Friends of Federation $89,100 $601 Maryland Dept. of Natural $3,000 For the creation of a 650 linear Resources-Tidewater For the building of a native For costs associated with foot living shoreline project on Administration plant garden at Kinder Farm purchasing water quality Back Creek. Park. $4,295 monitoring kits for the 2011 For supplies and materials Snapshot project. Chesapeake Bay Middle School for the Bay Grasses in Classes Friends of Quiet Waters Park $2,143 program. $25,000 South River Federation For supplies and materials For costs associated with the $20,000 needed to establish a native Olde Severna Park Improve - development of a BMP demon - For the design of three bioreten - plant garden. ment Association stration at Quiet Waters Park. tion projects in the Arundel on $4,000 the Bay community. Chesapeake Conservancy For costs associated with the Gingerville Manor Estates construction of a rain garden in $4,850 Community Association Spa Creek Conservancy Severna Park. For support of communications $1,917 $7,950 needs and outreach materials. For the purchase of native plants For support of the Spa Creek Saunders Point Community and rocks associated with a Conservancy Stewards program. Association Columbia Beach Citizens native garden planting. Improvement Association, Inc. $35,500 St. Anne’s Episcopal Church For supplies and costs associated $15,000 Maryland Association for with the creation of 1,400 square $7,259 For costs associated with the Environmental and Outdoor feet of bioretention facilities. For the installation of 178 development and installation of Education square feet of bioretention ponds. six bioretention cells and rain $17,920 gardens. Sherwood Forest Boys and For support of MAEOE’s Girls Club St. Martin’s in the Field Day Educating to Sustainability School Davidsonville Elementary Conference. $1,025 $2,163 $350 For oyster cages and spawning For a student field experience For program costs associated materials to help grow oysters in and materials for a schoolyard with 65 students participating the . habitat project. in an oyster planting field experience.

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Anne Arundel County County- Restoration Catonsville Middle School (continued) $579,089 Committee $5,000 Summit School $10,600 For program costs for 200 $557 Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay For program costs to support the students to attend a NorthBay Downspout Disconnection and Adventure field experience. For program and transportation $4,745 Stormwater Awareness Program. costs associated with a skipjack For support of scholarships and field experience to Sandy Point communications materials for Chesapeake Stormwater State Park, and a horseshoe crab an environmental education Back River Restoration Network raise and release project. conference. Committee $12,000 $50,000 For costs to support the Sunset Elementary School Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay For operational costs to support Stormwater Nutrient Reduction $697 $17,500 three behavior change campaigns Webcasts program in Maryland. in the Tidal Back River water - For costs associated with the For a forest assessment plan, shed. creation of a rain garden project. program costs and supplies to Clean Water Fund support the Baltimore County $3,926 Forestry Collective Management Baltimore County Department Tyler Heights Elementary For costs associated with the project. of Environmental Protection School creation of the Cherry Hill and Sustainability $2,089 Watershed Action Plan. Baltimore County Department $35,000 For materials and supplies to of Environmental Protection For costs associated with the construct a 450 square foot rain Cromwell Valley Elementary and Resource Management design of eight stormwater garden. School $35,000 management practices. $4,800 For costs associated with the Wiley H. Bates Middle School For program fees for a three-day creation of a Small Watershed Belair-Edison Neighborhoods, environmental education experi - $620 Action Plan (SWAP) for Inc. ence at Camp Wo-Me-To and For 40 students to attend the the and Tidal $31,320 material costs for a storm drain Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Gunpowder watersheds. For green street designs along mural painting project. Claggett Farm Education a portion of Erdman Avenue in Program. Baltimore County Department Baltimore. Dundalk Elementary School of Environmental Protection West/Rhode Riverkeeper and Resource Management $1,354 Bentalou Elementary School $16,798 $100,000 For costs associated with $2,300 installing a native plant garden For the development and support For contractor costs and materi - For program costs associated at Dundalk Elementary School. of the West/ Report als associated with the creation with two outdoor field experi - Card and evaluation efforts. of 1,531 linear feet of living ences to Ft. McHenry wetland shoreline at Essex Skypark. Dundalk Renaissance and . Corporation West/Rhode Riverkeeper Back River Restoration $10,000 $40,319 Catonsville Elementary Committee For materials and trees needed For contractor and supply costs School for the Greening of Dundalk associated with the creation of a $3,366 $1,000 volunteer initiative. stormwater wetland system. For equipment and materials For program costs for 73 associated with the annual Back students to participate in a River Cleanup. Living Classrooms field experience.

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Baltimore County Friendship Academy of Halstead Academy Lutherville Lab for Science, (continued) Science and Technology, #338 $3,600 Mathematics and Communi - cations Eastwood Elementary Magnet $3,000 For program costs for 72 School For costs associated with sending students to attend an outdoor $1,324 $2,300 70 students to participate in field experience. For support of the Trout in the a three day outdoor field experi - Classroom Raise and Release For program fees to participate ence at NorthBay. project, including monitoring in the National Aquarium’s Halstead Academy equipment and costs for the Aquapartners program. $4,100 release field experience. Grange Elementary School For program costs for 75 Eastwood Elementary Magnet $138 students to attend a Living Lutherville Lab for Science, School For costs for 15 fourth and fifth Classrooms outdoor field Mathematics and Communi - grade students to participate experience. $456 cations in a Bay Grasses in Classes For program costs for 28 students planting project. $1,380 to attend an outdoor field Hannah More School For costs associated with experience as well as materials $350 sending 100 students to attend for reef balls. Greater Homewood For program costs for 30 an outdoor field experience at Community Corporation, Inc. students to attend an outdoor the Arthur Sherwood Center Emmanuel Lutheran School $8,100 field experience at the and for stormdrain stenciling $2,050 For tree and other supply costs Smithsonian Environmental supplies. associated with plantings in Research Center. For program costs for 20 Barclay Park. students to attend an outdoor Lutherville Lab for Science, field experience. Hereford Middle School Mathematics and Communi - Gunpowder Valley $2,000 cations Conservancy Emmanuel Lutheran School For program costs for the $325 $18,684 $2,095 Bay Days field experiences For costs for 100 third, fourth For supplies and costs associated for over 300 students. For program costs involved in a and fifth graders to participate with six acres of reforestation three day field experience at the in a Bay Grasses in Classes within the field experience. Karen Noonan Center. Hereford Middle School watershed in Baltimore County. $150 Maryland Dept. of Natural Emmanuel Lutheran School For costs for 15 middle school Gunpowder Valley Resources students to participate in a $168 Conservancy Bay Grasses in Classes field $60,275 For costs for 12 seventh graders $3,000 experience. to participate in a Bay Grasses For production costs associated For staff and production costs in Classes field experience. with the bypass of White Hall to construct two permaculture Dam on the Gunpowder Falls. Immaculate Conception gardens. School Emmanuel Lutheran School $1,957 MPT Foundation $3,100 Halstead Academy For program costs for 71 fifth $13,000 For program costs associated $2,430 graders to participate in a with a student tree planting. For support of production and For students to participate in Living Classrooms Foundation broadcasting of the nonprofit a Martha Lewis Skipjack field experience. volunteer-a-thon and Chesa - Friends School of Baltimore Discovery Bay Patrol Program peake Bay Week 2011. $2,960 outdoor field experience. For program costs for 70 fifth graders to participate in a Wye Island field experience.

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Baltimore County Pleasant Plains Elementary Rosedale Center for Trout Unlimited-Maryland (continued) School Alternative Studies Chapter National Aquarium in $2,700 $5,000 $3,000 Baltimore For program fees for 65 students For costs involved in taking For native tree costs associated $1,000 to participate in the Potomac students to tree plantings and with a volunteer planting along River Program. stream clean-up events. the Gunpowder River. For supply costs associated with an invasive species removal and park clean-up. Pleasant Plains Elementary Rosedale Center for Western School of Technology School Alternative Studies & Environmental Science Pleasant Plains Elementary $3,255 $1,400 $1,488 School For program costs to send 75 For costs to support a For planting and supply costs $2,080 fourth grade students to the reforestation project with involved in a bay grasses Living Classrooms Foundation youth volunteers. planting. For program costs for 75 Educational Program for an students to participate in a outdoor field experience. Discovery Bay Patrol outdoor Rosedale Center for Western School of Technology field experience. Alternative Studies & Environmental Science Pleasant Plains Elementary $3,000 $190 School Parks & People Foundation For costs for 250 students For costs for 15 ninth graders to $3,240 $13,563 to participate in 20 days of participate in a Bay Grasses in For program costs to send 80 service projects. Classes field experience. For support of the Children fifth grade students to the Arthur in Nature Baltimore City Sherwood Center for an outdoor Conference. St. Mark School field experience. $406 Baltimore City-$334,381 Parks & People Foundation For costs for 15 students to Pleasant Plains Elementary participate in a Bay Grasses in $8,155 School Armistead Gardens Classes planting experience. For materials and costs associ - $612 Elementary/Middle School ated with the Community For program costs for 68 kinder - $440 Greening Resource Network. St. Paul’s School garten students to attend an For 45 fourth grade students outdoor field experience. $1,315 to participate in a Chesapeake Neighborhood For program costs for students Bay Foundation outdoor field Association to participate in a Living experience. Prettyboy Watershed Alliance $33,260 Classrooms Foundation field $5,000 experience. For materials and costs Banner Neighborhoods For cost associated with con - associated with plantings for Community Corporation ducting communications and a community-based greening The Crossroads Center outreach work. $15,000 initiative. $350 For costs associated with plant - For program costs for teachers ing 40 trees in the C.A.R.E. and Reservoir Hill Improvement Perry Hall Improvement to participate in a Chesapeake McElderry Park communities, Council Association Bay Foundation professional including planting supplies, trees $23,670 $1,552 development workshop. and educational materials. For trees and planting supplies For materials such as native for the JFWA/Americorps trees, mulch, gator bags and tree maintenance crew. ties for a tree planting project in Perry Hall.

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Baltimore City Graceland Park-O’Donnell National Aquarium in Southeast Community (continued) Heights Elementary School Baltimore Development Corporation C.A.R.E Community $5,000 $2,000 $25,445 Association For costs associated with 18 For costs to support an Atlantic For costs of trees, planting $4,360 students participating in a white cedar restoration project supplies, and interpretive NorthBay Adventure Camp field at Preserve. signage for plantings in For supplies to support an experience. Highlandtown. outreach and community engagement initiative on North Neighborhood Design Center Duncan Street in Baltimore City. Watershed $5,000 Southeast Community Association Development Corporation For facilitation of a “Green Carnegie Institution for $50,000 Master Plan” for the Patterson $20,000 Science, Department of For costs associated with the Park Neighborhood in For design of bioretention cells Embryology construction of six previously- Baltimore. and storm drain infrastructure. $30,000 identified bioretention and rain garden facilities at Baltimore For support of the Your Water - Parks & People Foundation Southeast Community City schools. shed Your Backyard program $2,218 Development Corporation with Baltimore City Schools. For costs associated with the $14,690 Herring Run Watershed creation of a schoolyard habitat For the design of landscaped Association Civic Works, Inc. project, and associated costs for curb extensions within the $35,000 $31,776 Project BLUE. Ellwood Park/McElderry Park For program costs, trees, supplies neighborhoods. For costs associated with the and outreach materials for development of a rainwater Parks & People Foundation plantings at schools, parks and irrigation system at Real Food St. Casimir Catholic School in residential areas. $2,000 Farms. For costs to create gardens and $2,000 tree plantings at three sites For program costs for Pre-K Mount Washington Civic Works, Inc. within Baltimore City. through third grade students to Preservation Trust $30,000 participate in the Audubon $4,000 Experience at Patterson Park. For the design of stormwater Patapsco Elementary/ For planting and construction management practices at Middle School costs associated with the Real Food Farms. St. Ignatius Loyola Academy creation of a demonstration $281 rain garden. For supplies associated with the $3,056 Civic Works, Inc. construction of a native plant For program fees and costs garden on school property. associated with the oyster reef $5,000 National Aquarium in restoration field experience For rain garden and educational Baltimore by the Living Classrooms costs associated with Heritage Patterson Park Audubon $11,282 Foundation. High School students at Real Center For costs to support the Westport Food Farms. Academy and Westport Water - $19,510 The Green School of front Partnership student-led For program costs to support the Baltimore Coldstream Park Elementary- shoreline restoration project. Audubon Watershed Experience Middle School with Baltimore City Schools. $1,350 $2,300 For program costs for 18 teachers to participate in a For support of fourth and fifth Chesapeake Bay Foundation grade education programs professional development with the National Aquarium workshop. at Ft. McHenry and Sandy Point State Park.

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Baltimore City Mutual Elementary School Caroline County- Carroll County Government (continued) $1,941 $12,435 $27,177 The Park School For costs for 112 students to For costs associated with a $2,900 attend an outdoor field experi - Caroline County Public stream corridor assessment in ence and participate in a native Schools a portion of Snowden’s Run. For program costs for 19 planting project. students to attend three outdoor $5,000 field experiences, as well as For program costs for 413 Chesapeake Bay Foundation costs for a native planting Patuxent High School students to attend an outdoor $25,000 project. Environmental Center field experience aboard the For supplies and program Schooner Sultana. $840 support associated with the Tuerk House For costs associated with a reforestation of 10 acres of $8,770 planting on school property, Caroline County Public pasture within the Monocacy including native plants, peat Schools watershed in Carroll County. For planting supplies and moss and soil conditioner. additional costs associated $4,898 with creating a community For program costs and plant Francis Scott Key High School green space. materials associated with a $860 service learning project for fifth Capital Area- $8,380 For costs associated with grade students. Waldorf School of Baltimore installing and maintaining a new recirculating aquaculture $1,003 D.C. Environmental North Caroline High School system to raise striped bass. For costs and fees associated Education Consortium $2,537 with a Bay grasses student $2,780 field experience. For three water monitoring Francis Scott Key High School For program, water quality probes for a yearlong student-led test kits, watershed model $353 water quality investigation. construction and maps to sup - For programs costs for 27 Calvert County- $9,761 port a professional development students to participate in a workshop for 50 teachers. Bay Grasses in Classes field experience. Calvert County Public Schools Carroll County- $81,490 Kimball Elementary School $4,700 Gateway School $1,600 Boy Scouts of America For educational programming For program costs for students Venturing Crew 202 $1,850 costs for 1,450 students to to participate in the Pontoon For professional development participate in an outdoor field $22,987 Boat Program and the River course fees, native plant garden experience at Flag Ponds For supplies associated with Habitat Program. maintenance supplies and bay Natural Area. the reforestation of three acres of grasses and horseshoe crab mowed turfgrass at Freedom student project materials. National Wildlife Federation Park. Dowell Elementary School $4,000 $2,280 Manchester Valley High For program costs for field Boy Scouts of America For program costs for 110 School experiences highlighting best Venturing Crew 202 students to attend an outdoor management practices during $85 field experience and participate $1,750 the Spitfires Strategy workshop. For lab supplies associated in a native planting project. For plants, fertilizer and with a student project to test the program costs associated with effects of fertilizer and compost a submerged aquatic vegetation on wetland plants. planting.

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Carroll County North East Middle School Dorchester County- Nanticoke Watershed Alliance (continued) $100 $198,797 $41,800 Wesley United Methodist For costs associated with a Bay For costs to support a pilot Church Grasses in Classes field experi - Dorchester Soil Conservation project for targeted outreach to $1,428 ence for middle school students. District farmers and to provide technical assistance. For supplies associated with a $1,723 one acre meadow restoration at Association For costs associated with the Ebb Valley Elementary School. $12,650 Dorchester Soil Conservation University of Maryland District’s Land & Water Connec - Center for Environmental For program costs associated tion’s program for 36 middle Science (UMCES) with the installation of rain schools students to participate gardens, rain barrels and runoff $17,004 Cecil County- $211,933 in a multi-day outdoor field control measures. For costs associated with a experience. homeowner behavior change Bohemia Manor Middle project designed to improve the Sassafras River Association School Dorchester Soil Conservation Chesapeake Bay watershed. $50,000 $2,225 District For program costs to support For program costs for 100 $40,000 behavior change campaigns students to participate in a field For costs associated with the encouraging green lawn care Frederick County- experience at Port Isobel. establishment of over 37 acres practices in the Sassafras River of riparian grass buffers. $101,181 Watershed. Cecil County Public Schools Ducks Unlimited Center for Watershed $108,908 Sassafras River Association Protection, Inc. $25,000 For support of a three-year $35,000 $19,919 initiative to develop and imple - For costs associated with a For costs associated with the ment an environmental literacy 56 acre wetland restoration at For costs associated with the design of a regenerative program in Cecil County Public Blackwater National Wildlife development of communication stormwater conveyance to be Schools. Refuge. materials for the restoration of implemented in Coppin Creek. the Linganore Creek Watershed.

Cecil County Forest Conser - Ducks Unlimited Deer Crossing Elementary vancy District Board/Cecil $24,870 County Forestry Board Charles County- $30,068 School For supplies and costs associated $1,950 $250 with the restoration of four acres For costs associated with the Charles Soil Conservation of wetlands. For costs involved in the creation purchase of 14 native trees District of a schoolyard habitat project. and shrubs to be planted by $30,068 Nanticoke Watershed Alliance kindergarten students. Global Wildlife Trust at For costs associated with the $32,400 restoration of 1.25 acres of Catoctin Preserve and Zoo For the completion of a green Gilpin Manor Elementary floodplain wetlands. $3,471 infrastructure plan for the School watershed. For native vegetation, planting $2,800 supplies, rain barrels and For program costs for 65 fourth restoration project signage mate - Nanticoke Watershed Alliance grade students to participate in rials for a series of plantings. a field experience aboard the $16,000 Martha Lewis Skipjack. For costs in support of the Nanticoke Creekwatchers Citi - zen Water Monitoring Program.

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Frederick County Potomac Conservancy Resource Howard County- $73,418 (continued) $29,975 Conservation & Development Council, Inc. For costs associated with the Burleigh Manor Middle $22,000 HandsOn Frederick County restoration of 3.8 miles of fish School passage to Clifford Branch. For costs associated with a $2,000 $1,055 stream restoration design for For costs associated with equip - For costs to implement a 1,000 1,000 linear feet along the Potomac Conservancy ment needs to raise trout for the linear foot soil stabilization . project along . $25,000 Trout in the Classroom program. For costs associated with the Middletown High School restoration of 800 linear feet of Columbia Association Tuscarora Creek. $1,996 Harford County- $15,408 $50,000 For costs involved in a school - For costs to support a behavior yard habitat project including Trout Unlimited Eden Mill Nature Center change campaign to encourage native trees, shrubs, plants, soil $11,370 $4,678 the installation of rain gardens amendments. and infiltration trenches in For support of the Brook Trout For costs associated with the Columbia, MD. Restoration and Outreach Project creation of a 3,000 square foot New Market Middle School in the Little Tuscarora Creek. native windbreak at Eden Mill Dayton Oaks Elementary $500 Nature Center. School For program costs for 77 middle $1,121 school students to attend an Garrett County- $60,012 Harford County Government outdoor field experience with the $10,000 For supplies and equipment for 90 students to build oyster Chesapeake Bay Foundation. For costs associated with the Crellin Elementary School reef balls. development of the Plumtree Run $2,400 New Market Middle School Small Watershed Action Plan. For 84 students to participate Ellicott Mills Middle School $1,000 in six outdoor field experiences The Izaak Walton League $3,000 For plants and supplies to Canaan Valley Institute. associated with the creation of America For support of program costs of rain gardens. $565 for 240 seventh graders to Grantsville Elementary participate in an outdoor field For support for a stream buffer School experience at NorthBay New Midway/Woodsboro restoration project. $1,961 Adventure camp. Elementary School For costs associated with the $2,000 Trinity Lutheran School creation of four schoolyard Ellicott Mills Middle School For materials and supplies habitat projects, including rain $165 PTA needed for the installation of gardens, and tree buffer and For program costs for 30 students $168 a rain garden. wetland planting. to participate in a Bay Grasses For program costs for 22 seventh in Classes planting project. graders to participate in a Bay New Midway/Woodsboro University of Maryland Grasses in Classes outdoor field Elementary School Center for Environmental experience. $2,000 Science (UMCES) For program costs associated $33,651 Glenwood Middle School with a Chesapeake Bay Founda - For costs to support the PIERS $143 tion professional development program for Garrett County program for 18 teachers. For program costs for 28 students Schools. to participate in a Bay Grasses in Classes planting project.

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Howard County University of Maryland- Town of Betterton Fallsmead Homes (continued) Department of Animal and $19,600 Corporation Avian Sciences Hammond Middle School For costs associated with $3,000 $10,000 $130 planting and maintaining 70 For supplies associated with tree For costs to support a program new trees in Betterton. plantings along a tributary of For program costs for students to teach horse farm operators Watts Run. to participate in a Bay Grasses to adopt environmental best in Classes outdoor field experi - management practices. ence. Montgomery County- Friends of Rock Creek’s Environment Wilde Lake Middle School $196,565 Ilchester Elementary School $10,000 $4,550 For program costs in support $171 Brown Station Elementary For costs for an outdoor field of the Rock Creek Stream Team For program costs associated School experience at the NorthBay Building program. with a Bay Grasses in Classes Adventure camp. $1,750 outdoor field experience. For program costs for 74 students Georgian Forest Elementary to attend an outdoor field expe - School Murray Hill Middle School rience and develop a watershed $695 $954 Kent County- $42,635 model. For program costs for 20 fourth For costs associated with caring and fifth graders to participate for trout as part of the Trout in American Farmland Trust Cabin John Citizens in a Bay Grasses in Classes field the Classroom program. Association $19,000 experience. For costs to support the Acceler - $2,945 Talbott Springs Elementary ating Adoption of Nutrient For the design, production and Grace Episcopal Day School School and Tillage Best Management installation of interpretive $1,197 $873 Practices program on the signage at the Greenwich Park For supplies and materials to For program costs for an outdoor Upper Eastern Shore. bioretention site. support the installation of a rain field experience and native garden on school grounds. planting at the Smithsonian Kent County Public Schools Cabin John Middle School Environmental Research Center. $3,660 $1,760 Highland Elementary School For program costs for 250 For program costs for 20 students Talbott Springs Elementary fourth grade students to attend to participate in a Karen Noonan $4,410 School the Bay Restoration Program at Center field experience. For program costs, supplies, and $1,110 Wilmer Park and a Schooner water quality monitoring tools Sultana outdoor field experience. for fourth grade students to For program costs for 85 fourth City of Rockville attend an outdoor field experi - graders to participate in an $28,000 ence at Sandy Point State Park. outdoor field experience at the Kent School For costs associated with the Smithsonian Environmental $375 Research Center. development of the Horizon Hill Holy Cross School For costs associated with an Stormwater Retrofit design plans. outdoor field experience for 14 $635 Triadelphia Ridge Elementary students aboard the Schooner For program costs for the Arthur City of Takoma Park School Sultana. Sherwood Study Center, as well $143 $20,000 as costs for a rain barrel project. For program costs for 18 fourth For costs associated with the graders to participate in a creation of a green street plan Bay Grasses in Classes field for Flower Street in Takoma experience. Park.

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Montgomery County Montgomery Soil Conservation Spark Matsunaga Elementary William H. Farquhar Middle (continued) District School School Hoover Middle School $25,000 $3,141 $2,016 $300 For supplies associated with the For program costs for 170 For program costs for 20 students reforestation of five to 10 acres students to participate in a to attend a field experience to For program costs for 100 sixth of the former Oaks Landfill. Smithsonian Environmental Port Isobel. graders to participate in a Research Center field experience. Bay Grasses in Classes field experience. Newport Mill Middle School $453 St. Martin of Tours - $34,600 Kemp Mill Elementary School For program costs for 16 students $628 to participate in a Bay Grasses For program costs for 23 students $3,108 Octoraro Watershed in Classes planting project. to attend an outdoor field For program costs for 70 students Association experience to the Chesapeake to attend an outdoor field expe - Bay Environmental Center. $34,600 rience with Living Classrooms, High School For costs associated with project as well as costs associated with $1,715 designs of a stormwater wetland. a planting project. Takoma Park Middle School For costs associated with sending 25 students to the $479 Little Bennett Elementary Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s For program costs for 15 sixth School Port Isobel for outdoor field graders to participate in a Prince George ’s County- $1,162 experiences. Bay Grasses in Classes field $579,738 experience. For costs associated with 101 fourth grade students to partici - Potomac Conservancy Alice Ferguson Foundation pate in a field trip to Flag Ponds $18,260 Westbrook Elementary School $35,000 Nature Park. For program costs associated $5,000 For support of teacher profes - with the Growing Native For program costs for 56 fourth sional development, student Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary program. grade students to attend three field experiences and schoolyard School outdoor field experiences. habitat projects with Prince $1,551 Potomac Conservancy George’s County Schools. For costs associated with an $35,000 Westbrook Elementary School oyster reef ball student action For costs associated with $3,862 Alice Ferguson Foundation project. stream restoration designs for For program costs for 415 $15,000 a tributary of the Little fourth grade students to attend For program costs in support of Montgomery County Tuscarora Creek. restoration field experiences. the Trash Free Potomac Initiative. Department of Environmental Protection Roberto Clemente Middle Wheaton High School Alice Ferguson Foundation $14,300 School $1,926 $8,371 For support of the Montgomery $4,272 For program costs for a three County Watershed Forum and For materials associated with a For program costs for 160 day outdoor field experience Good Neighbors Workshop 2,800 linear foot living shoreline students to participate in two on Smith Island with the series. project at . Chesapeake Bay Foundation Chesapeake Bay Foundation. field experiences. Alice Ferguson Foundation $15,000 For support of the 23 rd Annual Watershed Clean-Up.

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Prince George ’s County City of College Park Joe’s Movement Emporium Prince George’s County (continued) $35,000 $3,600 $50,000 Anacostia Riverkeeper For design plans for the For program costs to support For program costs to support $20,000 Lackawanna Street Project. the 10th Annual Sweeping The a behavior change campaign in Avenue event. the Northwest Branch of the For program costs for the Anacostia. subsistence angling outreach City of Hyattsville campaign. $35,000 Joe’s Movement Emporium Samuel Ogle Middle School For concept design plans for the $2,000 Anacostia Watershed Society University Hills neighborhood of For program costs for an $4,137 $16,500 Hyattsville. overnight field experience For program costs for 150 with the Living Classrooms students to attend an outdoor For program costs to support Foundation for 10 students. field experience aboard the the National Capitol Region City of Mount Rainier Lady Maryland skipjack. Watershed Stewards Academy. $35,000 Living Classrooms Founda - For costs associated with the tion of the National Capital Samuel Ogle Middle School Anacostia Watershed Society design of a bioretention cell on Region $4,212 $14,100 Buchanan Street. $25,000 For program costs for 150 For program costs and supplies For support of the Shipboard students to attend an outdoor associated with 0.25 acres of Forest Trends Education Programs, and costs field experience as well as Phragmites eradication and $20,000 associated with the Bay Watch oyster restoration project costs. wetland restoration along the For the development of a program. . green street project in the town Samuel Ogle Middle School of Bladensburg. Neighborhood Design Center Anacostia Watershed Society $5,000 $5,000 For program costs for 260 $20,000 Friends of the Patuxent For costs associated with the students to participate in a For costs associated with the Wildlife Research Center, Inc. planting of 60 trees. Living Classrooms field development of the State of the $19,000 experience aboard the Sigsbee, Anacostia Annual Report. For program costs to support the and an oyster growing project. Northwestern High School Patuxent Watershed Treasured Anacostia Watershed Society Schoolyards Program. $770 The Low Impact Development For program costs for 40 high $25,500 Center, Inc. school students to participate For support of the Rice Rangers Helping Hands at Springhill in a Bay Grasses in Classes $30,000 program with Prince George’s Lake Elementary School planting experience. For the creation of a Green County Schools. $300 Streets/Green Jobs plan for the For water quality testing equip - town of Capitol Heights. Paint Branch Elementary Baden Elementary School ment associated with an outdoor School field experience for 15 students $2,455 Third Day Club of at the Potomac River Clean-Up. $2,075 For program costs for 250 Elementary School For program costs for 165 students to attend an outdoor students to attend an outdoor $2,400 field experience. Holy Trinity Episcopal Day field experience, as well as par - For costs associated with an School ticipate in restoration activities. outdoor field experience to City of Bowie $2,520 Hard Bargin Farm and native $35,000 For program costs for 59 fifth plantings for 60 students. grade students to participate in For costs associated with the a field experience at the Patux - development of a tree canopy ent 4-H Center. and implementation plan.

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Prince George ’s County Queen Anne’s County - Matapeake Middle School Upper School (continued) $231,667 $5,000 $1,301 Town of Bladensburg For program costs associated For program costs for 17 students $15,000 Centreville Middle School with sixth grade students to participate in a Fox Island attending an outdoor field field experience. For the analysis of community- $3,000 experience at NorthBay level impervious surfaces as For costs associated with sending Environmental Center. well as the creation of a green 176 students to attend three surfaces plan in the port towns days of a NorthBay outdoor field St. Mary’s County- of the Anacostia. experience. Queen Anne’s County Government $1,909 Town of Riverdale Park Harry R. Hughes Center $86,175 Chesapeake Public Charter for Agro-Ecology, Inc. For program costs and signage $40,600 School (see Maryland Center for associated with the creation For costs associated with the Agro-Ecology for previous of 2,855 linear feet of living $1,349 installation of a 2,035 square grants) shoreline at Ferry Point Park. foot bioretention cell between For materials associated with Riverdale Town Hall and $14,200 a schoolyard rainwater system, Riverdale Elementary School. For support of three regional Stevensville Middle School including a rain garden and rain barrels. workshops for elected, appointed $5,000 and career officials to under - Town of University Park For program fees associated stand the impacts of the TMDLs. St. Mary’s River Watershed with an outdoor field experience $30,000 Association at NorthBay Environmental For design plans for a bioreten - Kennard Elementary Center. $560 tion cell, as well as the creation of a green street concept plan for $4,603 For costs associated with spat a section of Queens Chapel For program costs for six field Sudlersville Middle School collector supplies for an oyster garden. Road. experiences engaging 480 $4,000 students and for education For program costs for 35 middle signage at schoolyard projects. University of Maryland school students to attend an $4,998 outdoor field experience to Statewide- $267,000 Kennard Elementary Echo Hill Outdoor School. For materials associated with the construction of a student- $3,915 Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay designed bioretention cell. For program costs for third and Sudlersville Middle School $10,000 fifth graders to participate in a $3,513 Schooner Sultana outdoor field For program costs to support University of Maryland For costs associated with an experience. Project Clean Stream. Department of Art outdoor field experience to $1,200 NorthBay Environmental Center. Maryland Dept. of Natural Chesapeake Bay Commission For sign supplies and installation Resources-State Forest and $5,000 for outreach at the University of Town of Centreville Parks For costs to support the develop - Maryland. $99,960 $1,000 ment of education and outreach For supplies and labor to For costs associated with tree materials pertaining to fertilizer create 275 linear feet of living plantings. use by homeowners. shoreline at the Centreville Ma - rina/Park on the .

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Statewide Easton Club East Community Tilghman Elementary School Shenandoah Resource (continued) Association $1,156 Conservation and Development Council Chesapeake Conservation $500 For costs associated with a three Corps Program For costs and supplies associated day Echo Hill outdoor field $71,500 $250,000 with stormdrain stenciling. experience and student-led This project utilizes the strategies action project on school grounds. developed and implemented For costs associated with during the Shenandoah Adaptable running the Chesapeake Easton Elementary School Streamfencing pilot project Conservation Corps, a program White Marsh Elementary $20,641 targeting outreach to farmers. that provides career and leader - School For costs associated with a three ship training for young people day Echo Hill outdoor field $3,244 interested in environmental Trout Unlimited experiences and student-led For program costs for 23 students careers and Chesapeake Bay action projects on school to attend a Pickering Creek $107,589 protection. grounds for numerous classes. Center outdoor field experience. For costs associated with the physical removal of Mossy Creek Maryland Association for Mill Dam and the restoration of Pickering Creek Environmental White Marsh Elementary Environmental and Outdoor 2,000 linear feet of coldwater Center School Education (MAEOE) stream. $30,000 $3,652 $2,000 For support for the sixth through For program costs for 26 students For costs associated with student Institute of Marine eighth grade Gateways to to attend a Pickering Creek participation at the Maryland Science, School of Marine Conservation program with Center outdoor field experience. Green School Summit at Sandy Science, College of William Talbot County Public Schools. Point State Park. & Mary $53,394 St. Michael’s Elementary Virginia- $333,233 For costs associated with the School Talbot County- $78,983 development of a living shoreline $3,373 study to focus on the habitat Friends of the North Fork For costs associated with a value of living shoreline projects. Chapel District Elementary three day Echo Hill outdoor School field experience and student-led $750 $6,144 action project on school grounds. For costs associated with the facilitation of a Capacity Build - For program costs for an Washington County- ing Initiative strategic planning Echo Hill Outdoor School field St. Michael’s Elementary $58,041 retreat. experience with multiple School fifth grade classes. $3,373 Achievement Preparatory James City County Division For costs associated with a Academy of Parks and Recreation three day Echo Hill outdoor field $1,500 Conservancy experience and student-led $100,000 For program costs for 45 sixth $4,900 action project on school grounds. For costs associated with the grade students to participate in installation of 400 linear feet For costs associated with an outdoor field experience with of living shoreline on public the production of the 2010 St. Michael’s Middle High the Anacostia Watershed Society. property at Jamestown Beach. Choptank Report Card. School $2,000 Anacostia Watershed Society For program fees for 20 students $4,950 to attend an Echo Hill Outdoor For costs associated with sending School field experience as part of 225 fourth grade students to a year long issue investigation participate in an outdoor field research project. experience.

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Washington County- Sultana Projects Worcester County- Pocomoke Middle School (continued) $5,000 $38,346 $4,035 City of Hagerstown For program fees for 250 students For support of program fees $35,000 to attend 10 outdoor field Lower Shore Land Trust and other expenses for a Lady experiences aboard the Schooner Maryland experience for sixth For costs associated with planting $4,745 Sultana. grade students. 180 caliper trees in the city of For program costs associated Hagerstown. with providing native planting Wilderness Leadership & and rain barrel workshops. Pocomoke Middle School Learning, Inc. (WILL) Clear Spring High School $1,148 $4,848 $741 Lower Shore Land Trust For program costs for 80 students For program costs to support to attend an outdoor field For costs associated with send - $18,418 a three-day Chesapeake Bay experience. ing 75 high school students to For costs associated with the Foundation trip and planting participate in field experiences development of a volunteer project for 20 youth. and to conduct a local stream community engagement program. clean-up. Maryland Coastal Bays Friendship Public Charter Wicomico County- Program/Maryland Coastal School-Chamberlain Campus $4,050 Bays Foundation $1,200 $10,000 For costs for 90 middle school Hazel Outdoor Discovery For grant program support students to participate in the Center and outreach costs to continue Watershed Explorers Program $2,050 the Community Stewardship with Anacostia Watershed Mini-Grants Program in the Society. For costs associated with wetland Coastal Bays. plantings at Hazel Outdoor Discovery Center. Highland View Academy $3,680 Salisbury University For costs associated with $2,000 sending 115 students to two field experiences and for a For costs associated with a native plant planting. wet sample analysis for the Wicomico River.

Howard Road Academy Middle School $1,122 For costs for 75 students to participate in the Watershed Explorers program with the Anacostia Watershed Society and through a Living Class - rooms outdoor experience.

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