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Nature Forward Supports Bird Safe Buildings
Update 2/7/23: On Tuesday, December 6th, the DC Council unanimously passed the Migratory Local Wildlife Protection Act (also known as the Bird Bill)! The Chairman of the Council noted today the “wide support” from our many organizations and members of the public at our hearing last month. It does show that there’s power in numbers and…
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2023 Virginia General Assembly Legislative Priorities
Learn about Nature Forward’s General Assembly priorities for 2023 and write to your legislators to ask them to protect our progress on addressing the climate crisis!
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Montgomery County Council Passed Unanimously an updated Forest Conservation Law!
Montgomery County Council will have a hearing on Forest Conservation Bill 25-22 on Tuesday, February 7th at 1:30pm. See below in three ways you can take action to save trees before Feb 7th.
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Stream Monitoring Volunteers are Your “Eyes on the Ground”
October. Fall Monitoring. Three incidents discovered and reported. For nearly 30 years, WQM volunteers have played a crucial role in protecting streams by serving as “eyes on the ground.” They do this by observing, identifying and reporting potential threats.
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Speak up for stronger climate action leadership in Fairfax County!
In September 2021, Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors adopted the county’s first-ever Community-wide Energy and Climate Action Plan (CECAP). But reaching aggressive targets on time will take bold leadership. TAKE ACTION and tell your Supervisor to make the most effective plan possible.
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Sprawl is bad for forests and streams
The Washington, DC area has lost a great deal of forest over the last few decades due to sprawl and suburban development. This has also harmed our streams and watersheds. Backyard and shade trees are valuable, but not substitutes for intact forest from an ecosystem perspective.
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Take Action Now: Protect Ten Mile Creek from more pavement!
On January 17th, 2023, The Montgomery County Council will hold a public hearing on ZTA 22-12 which will essentially allow for more impervious surfaces around Ten Mile Creek. This ZTA will except bikeways from the impervious surface limits of 6% set in place previously by the 2014 Clarksburg Master Plan with the Ten Mile Creek…
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Conservation News – Winter 2022-2023
Conservation advocacy news & updates from winter 2022-2023.
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Sprawl is Bad for the Climate
Nature Forward supports land-use plans that fight sprawl with development that keeps housing and business growth centered near transit and away from forests and farms.
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Equipping our Community Scientists to Monitor Streams
Nature Forward received a grant from the Society for Biodiversity Preservation (SBP) in January 2022 to purchase equipment for use by our volunteers who monitor streams in the Washington, DC Metro region. Our Water Quality Monitoring (WQM) community science program, which has been running for 30 years, helps fill data gaps in the freshwater stream…