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Campus Creek Restoration
Campus Creek The Campus Creek restoration, completed Nov. 2019, is an environmental restoration project, designed to address stormwater runoff and erosion within the creek. The project was 10 years in planning, and funded in large part by a MD Dept.
Take Ten Minutes Outside
UMD and Cornell Researchers Find as Little as 10 Minutes in Nature Has Measurable Impacts on Mental Health, with a Focus on the Highly Stressed College Student Population Researchers help establish a dosage of nature to prescribe to students to combat growing mental health concerns
UMD Receives 2019 Tree Campus USA Recognition
The University of Maryland was honored with the 2019 Tree Campus USA® recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management—an honor that has been bestowed to the UMD Arboretum for twelve consecutive years.
Walk with an Arborist...and Your Baby!
The University of Maryland's Arboretum & Botanical Gardens is offering a new program for new parents. For the past year, we have offered a popular Walk with an Arborist tour and this year, we are piloting a new program, Walk with an Arborist...and Your Baby!
Arboretum Honored with Grand Award at 2019 Green Star Awards Program
UMD Landscape & Arboretum and Horticultural Services staff, Associate Director Bill Monan and Administrative Staff Yasmine Baker, receiving the PGMS 2019 Green Star Grand Award The University of Maryland Facilities Management department is proud to announce that the UMD Ar
The Lowdown on Lanternflies
Spotted Lantern Fly Colorful but destructive to a whole passel of desirable plants, spotted lanternflies are swarming and bumbling (because they don’t actually fly all that well) south from Pennsylvania.