All your years of hard work have paid off and your community is now an official Community Wildlife Habitat site! Keep your Habitat Team and community members engaged with post-certification goals such as continuing education classes, certifying additional habitats and partnership opportunities with other NWF programs.
In order to keep your community actively engaged in its Community Wildlife Habitat project, we require the Habitat Team and community members to participate in post-certification activities and submit yearly updates to us. The Community Wildlife Habitat certification is the first step toward making your community wildlife-friendly, but there are many other things you can do.
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Points
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Activity
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Required
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Submit yearly post-certification update forms
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10
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Secure a feature article in the local media about your project
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10
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Maintain bulletin board or website established during certification
stage
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10
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Continued hosting of annual event started during certification
stage
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5
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Participate (through a booth) in at least one community event
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10
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Host a Habitat Stewards training
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5
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Frogwatch sites (up to 5)
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10
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Create a service-learning opportunity for high school students
in your community
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10
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Get Access Nature or Ranger Rick adopted into the school
curriculum
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10
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Have the college/university associated with your community
become involved in the Campus Ecology program
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10
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Work with the department of transportation to convert medians
into wildlife-friendly landscapes
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10
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Continue regular column in your community paper/newsletter to
educate community members about your project
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5
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Deliver an oral presentation at a community group not yet
associated with your project (i.e. Garden club, HOA) (up to 6)
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5
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Have member of habitat team serve on a community committee or
board that addresses community environment issues
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10
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Examine your community’s weed ordinances, and work to change
them to be more native plant and habitat friendly
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10
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Host a workshop to educate builders and developers in your
community about what they can do to conserve habitat during the site
selection, planning, and conservation phases of their projects.
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10
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Work with local park agencies to convert parkland to wildlife
friendly landscapes.
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1
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Each additional home, townhome or apartment certified as a
Backyard Wildlife Habitat site
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3
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Each community site certified as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat
site
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5
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Each Schoolyard Habitats site certified
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Minimum required every year is 40 points for communities with population greater than 5,000 and 30 points for communities smaller than 5,000.
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