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Birding Sites 

• Check out local birding hot spots
  

• Virginia Birding - Interactive Map
  http://gis.waterborne-env.com/vabirds/

Tips on Landscaping, Gardening and Attracting Wildlife:

• National Pollinator Week 2008
  www.pollinator.org/pollinator_week_2008.htm
  
  
• National Audubon Society – Audubon at Home Program
  www.audubonathome.org
  
  
• National Audubon Society healthy landscape posters
  • Healthy Yard - www.audubonathome.org/yard/index.html
  • Healthy Apartment www.audubonathome.org/apartment/index.html
  • Healthy Neighborhood - www.audubonathome.org/neighborhood/index.html
  • Healthy Schoolyard - www.audubonathome.org/schoolyard/index.html
  • Healthy Country Home - www.audubonathome.org/countryhome/index.html
    
    
• Natural Resources Conservation Service – Backyard Conservation www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/backyard

• National Wildlife Federation – Backyard Habitat
  www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/index.cfm

• Northern Virginia Soil & Water Conservation District
  www.fairfaxcounty.gov/nvswcd

• American Horticulture Society
  www.ahs.org

• Fairfax County Master Gardeners
  www.fairfaxmastergardeners.com/

• Virginia Master Gardeners
  www.hort.vt.edu/mastergardener/

• EPA - GreenScaping
  www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/green/owners.htm

Plants:

• Chesapeake Bay Native Plants Guide
  www.nps.gov/plants/pubs/chesapeake/
  
  
• Weeds Gone Wild – Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas
  www.nps.gov/plants/alien
  
  
• Invasive Plants of the Eastern U.S.
  www.invasive.org/eastern/
  
  
• Native alternatives to English Ivy
  www.vnps.org/resources/ALTERNATIVESENGLISHIVY.htm

• Virginia Native Plant Society
  www.vnps.org

Wildlife:

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  www.birds.cornell.edu
• North American Bluebird Society
  www.nabluebirdsociety.org
•  North American Butterfly Association
  www.naba.org
• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
  www.nappc.org
• Raptor Conservancy of Virginia
  www.raptorsva.org
• Virginia Blue Bird Society
  www.virginiabluebirds.org
• Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
  www.dgif.state.va.us
• Wildlife Rescue League
  www.wildliferescueleague.org
• Washington Area Butterfly Club
  http://users.sitestar.net/butterfly

Parks:

• National Park Service
  www.nps.gov

• Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority
  www.nvrpa.org

• Fairfax County Park Authority
  www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/resources

• Prince William County Park Authority
  www.pwcparks.org

• Alexandria Dept. of Recreation, Parks & Culture
  http://ci.alexandria.va.us/recreation

• Arlington County Dept. of Parks and Recreation
  http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/ParksRecreation/ParksRecreationMain.aspx

• Loudon County Department of Parks and Recreation
  http://www.loudoun.gov/prcs/home.htm

• Bull Run Mountain Conservancy
  http://www.fobr.org/

• Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
  www.dcr.state.va.us

Local Environmental Organizations:

• Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment

   

• Northern Virginia Conservation Trust
  www.nvct.org

• Potomac Conservancy
  www.potomac.org

• Fairfax Master Naturalist
  http://www.virginiamasternaturalist.org/fairfax.html
  
  
• Friends of Dyke Marsh
  
  
• Friends of Huntley Meadows
  
  
• Friends of Potomac River Refuges
  
  
• Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy
  
  
• Northern Virginia Bird Club
  
  
• Prince William Conservation Alliance
  
  
• Sustainable Loudoun
  
  
• Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club
  
  
• Virginia Conservation Network
  
  
• Virginia League of Conservation Voters