In recent years, Baltimore has quietly emerged as a leading US city for conservation stewardship across its forested and vacant to greened land. Local environmental land trust Baltimore Green Space (BGS) is a leading organization in these conservation efforts, which highlight the existing conservation value in the city’s green spaces while at the same time working to expand it through partnership-based community outreach, resourcing, education and stewardship cultivation. This talk will highlight some examples of this work and its impacts for conservation education and land enhancements in the urban setting, as well as for programming community-based work with native plant ecosystems from forests and their edges to more landscaped meadow patches and pollinator gardens in pocket parks and community gardens.
In-person and Zoom options available.