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Updated: January 16, 2024

Natural Area Management Services Directory: Converting Lawn to Wildflower and Pollinator Meadows

Converting lawn to wildflower and pollinator meadows helps develop wildlife habitat, reduces energy consumption, and saves property owners money. Providers of lawn conversion are listed here.
Updated: October 4, 2023

The Woods in Your Backyard Workbook

The Woods in Your Backyard Workbook is available for free download as a PDF with fillable fields. It can be used in conjunction with The Woods in Your Backyard guide or on its own to help property owners assess their natural areas and to determine how to reach their land care objectives.
Updated: September 21, 2023

Natural Area Management Services Providers Directory listings

This directory is developed by the Woods in Your Backyard Partnership and the University of Maryland Extension's Woodland Stewardship Education program. This directory serves as a way to connect land owners and managers to green industry services providers. The directory has been organized by service and alphabetically. Click or tap on the icons below to access the listings.
Updated: May 25, 2023

Woodland Health Practices: A Field Guide

New from The Woods in Your Backyard Partnership, the Woodland Health Practices Field Guide provides the latest, research-based information on land-care practices.
Early growth of planted trees with tree shelters.
Updated: July 18, 2022

Natural Area Management Services Directory: Small Woodlot Tree Harvesting

Harvesting selected trees from your small woodland can provide firewood, enable chosen trees to thrive, help to control insects and diseases, and more. Small woodlot tree harvesting providers are listed here.
Updated: July 11, 2022

Japanese Maple Scale Woody Ornamental Host Plants

Japanese maple scale (JMS), (Lopholeucaspis japonica Cockerell) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), is a prolific pest of major concern to nursery crop producers and landscape managers in MD and the eastern United States. JMS is difficult to monitor and manage due to its small size, extended crawler emergence periods, and wide host plant range. The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide practitioners with host plant information that will help to improve and focus their monitoring efforts. All plants listed in this fact sheet are verified as hosts of Japanese maple scale from published literature or direct observations by the authors. This list should not be considered all inclusive. Due to the generalist feeding habits of JMS there are likely more hosts we have yet to identify including additional cultivars/hybrids.
Updated: January 11, 2022

Green Book 2014: How to Apply for Woodland Harvest Permits in Maryland (EB-417)

Harvesting woodlands is an essential part of good management and supports the forest products industry. The careful stewardship of woodland resources may include periodic harvesting. This practice helps woodlands by removing certain trees that may be damaged, diseased, stressed, or mature.
Updated: October 13, 2021

The Woods In Your Backyard Creating Natural Areas from Existing Lawn or Pasture - University of Maryland Extension Information Sheet

Are you a homeowner with a blanket of lawn you wish was occupied with natural vegetation and trees? This publication summarizes some of the features of the Woodland Stewardship Education's "The Woods in Your Backyard" program.
Updated: October 11, 2021

Natural Area Management Services Directory: Portable Sawmill

Sometimes it's easier to have the sawmill come to your woodlands, especially for smaller jobs. Providers of portable sawmilling are listed here.
Updated: July 27, 2021

Natural Resources Income Opportunities on Private Lands Conference

The proceedings and invited papers from this conference were intended as a natural resources handbook for landowners considering enterprise options. Agricultural and natural resources professionals can use the resource to enable them to better serve farm and forest landowners, rural community leaders, and others.