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Roberta Hunter of the NJ Audubon congratulated the 2024 Fall Student Council for last year's student council's and school's efforts which earned them the Green Flag award of the ECO School program. (10/30/24)
In June 2023, RFIS's Pollinator Garden became a Homegrown National Park!
Homegrown National Park® is a term coined by Doug Tallamy and is the key to our call-to-action: “Our National Parks, no matter how grand in scale are too small and separated from one another to preserve species to the levels needed. Thus, the concept for Homegrown National Park, a bottom-up call-to-action to restore habitat where we live and work, and to a lesser extent where we farm and graze, extending national parks to our yards and communities.”
Joining this effort is consistent with 5th and 6th grade science curriculum about biodiversity, ecosystems and climate change. The Homegrown National Parks website states, "We are at a critical point of losing so many species from local ecosystems that their ability to produce the oxygen, clean water, flood control, pollination, pest control, carbon storage, etc, that is, the ecosystem services that sustain us, will become seriously compromised." Thanks to our efforts at RFIS and possibly yours at home, we can "create new ecological networks that will enlarge populations of plants and animals enabling them to weather normal population fluctuations indefinitely."
PollinatorGardenMediaKit-April2024.pdfClick here to see photos from the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony taken by Madison Raine Photography
For more information on the National Wildlife Federation's certification process
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