Although they look like small bird houses, the 5 little nest boxes on the perimeter of the Arboretum Outreach Center gardens are actually trap nest boxes for the spring queens of hornets and yellowjackets.  Research Entomologists Drs.

Cicada Damage Protection Signage - "We have installed netting to help protect this tree from periodical cicada damage." Lawnmower? Chainsaw? Incoming biplane? Space Godzilla vs. Mothra? Nope, that’s just the sound of the periodical cicada singing its little heart out.

The University of Maryland’s Community Learning Garden (CLG) was awarded funds from the U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG) and American Public Gardens Association who have partnered to offer support to established urban agriculture and other urban food-growing programs at public gardens affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, $378,000 was awarded to 28 public gardens across the United States to help sustain urban agriculture and community food growing during this challenging time.

Spring 2020 hallmarks a decade of harvests from the University of Maryland Community Learning Garden.

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.

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

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.

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 Arb

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.

Originally post May 21, 2019 at https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2019/05/21/chesapeake-bay-health-shows-resilience-in-2018-report-card/ Extreme Rainfall Dampens Grade, But Positive Trend Remains