Get Involved
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Residents:
- Compost
- Recycle
- Conserve water
- Create a vegetated buffer along a stream or wetland on your land
- Reduce the amount of fertilizers and pesticides you use on your lawn
- Certify vernal pools
- Help control invasive species
- Participate or organize a field walk or biodiversity day event in your town
- Participate in and organize a stream teams
- Contribute time and expertise to local boards or a conservation group
- Educate kids about the natural world
- Get involved in local environmental events
- Help with trash clean-ups in natural areas
- Support hazardous household waste clean-up days
- Support your local land trusts
Town Government:
- Update zoning, bylaws and regulations to safeguard significant natural resources
- Implement stormwater management guidelines
- Identify important environmental issues
- Develop & implement watershed-based open space plans
- Plan & adopt water conservation strategies
- Improve public access to local streams & fish passage
- Increase recycling objectives
- Reach out to neighborhood groups, civic organizations and other Watershed
Initiative partners to help promote these goals
- Upgrade wastewater treatment plants
- Have staff participate on a watershed team
Businesses:
- Provide technical expertise to local conservation groups
- Offer funding
for watershed projects (mailing, printing, materials, brochures)
- Encourage
employees to volunteer for stream teams, clean-ups, trail maintenance
- In-house:
recycle, institute pollution prevention programs, implement water
saving services and encourage water conservation, donate land or provide
access to your property
Teachers and Students:
- Study a natural areas near your school
- Collect & analyze water samples
- Organize a stream clean-up. (A group
of 9th graders at the Hampshire Regional High School in Westhampton,
Massachusetts hauled out 5 tons of trash near a trout stream on a
single day.)
- Raise salmon eggs & release fish fry to learn about biology,
history, non-point source pollution and watershed concepts
- Practice
water conservation by installing water saving devices, using turf
grasses on ball fields that don't require irrigation, reduce the amount
of lawn around your school
- Develop recycling challenges for the school
- Participate in community
service projects
- Prepare brochures on the biodiversity of a nearby conservation
area
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