Sustainable Poolesville Community Wildlife Habitat Project

The Community Wildlife Habitat Project is part of the Sustainable Poolesville Green Team's continuing sustainability efforts in the Town of Poolesville, Maryland. In June 2016, the Sustainable Poolesville Green Team partnered with the National Wildlife Federation to register with NWF’s Community Wildlife Habitat certification program. The Community Wildlife Habitat project brings people together f

or a common purpose – to create a community where people, flora and fauna can flourish. Poolesville’s action plan includes a long-term commitment to citizen education about providing habitat for wildlife and employing sustainable gardening practices. These practices include reducing or eliminating the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, conserving water, planting native plants, removing invasive plants and composting. Poolesville’s Community Wildlife Habitat project goal is to encourage as many homes, places of worship, businesses, farms and other locations as possible in the 20837 zip code area to become NWF-certified habitats. Each individual certification provides the project with credit toward the community habitat certification. Poolesville was certified as a Community Wildlife Habitat in 2019, and re-certified in 2021.