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s populations increase and become more urbanized, there is a serious need to increase environmental literacy in citizens in order to
mitigate environmental damage. Creating citizen science and service learning projects is an engaging tool to mend this concern and
promote outdoor activity. These projects, a collaboration of volunteers and scientists to create new science-based knowledge, benefit individual facilities and citizens by increasing habitat stewardship and confidence in a range of opportunities
related to outdoor recreation, natural resource conduct and stewardship action.
There are many national citizen
science projects that your facility can
participate in to get comfortable with
data collection and the process before
you create your own project. There is
a project out there for any interest
you have, from the Monarch Larva

	

Monitoring Project (www.mlmp.org)
to Nature's Notebook (tracks seasonal changes in plants and animals
- www.usanpn.org/natures_notebook), Audubon Christmas Bird
Count (www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count),
and FrogWatch (www.aza.org/frogwatch) to name a few.

Restoring Habitats and Wetlands
The staff of Patuxent River Park,
part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
(M-NCPPC) in Prince George's
County, Maryland, has been successful in involving citizens of all ages in
exciting and significant research projects that have impacted the survival
of many species. Initially, projects
at Patuxent River Park were more
pure research - conservation and
wildlife management conducted by
senior naturalist Greg Kearns - and
the public was not usually allowed
to participate in any appreciable
numbers. Through our river ecology
boat tours, the primary mission being
environmental education, the community was made aware of ongoing
projects. As public interest grew, the
programs evolved from using a few
intern assistants into a public science
and education collaboration.

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