Our Vision

Cape Conservation Corps envisions a community where residents:

Have pride, appreciation and passion for our natural spaces.
Understand and own our individual impacts on our environment and quality of life in Cape St. Claire.
Eliminate destructive storm water runoff and erosion from our properties.
Eradicate invasive plant species from the landscape of Cape St. Claire and plant native species everywhere.
Nurture healthy beaches, streams and woodlands for the benefit of our community and children.

Think global, act local

Understand and own your individual impact on our environment and quality of life in Cape St. Claire.

Storm water: Slow it down, spread it out, soak it in

Improve the health of local waterways by eliminating storm water run off and erosion from our properties.

Restore healthy woodlands

Eradicate invasive plant species from the landscape of Cape St. Claire and plant native species everywhere..

Restoring our Beaches

Nurture healthy beaches, streams and woodlands for the benefit of our community and children.

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Planting for Pollinators

©Lisel Jane Ashlock at www.liseljaneashlock.com Stacey’s blogs have given us many ideas on helping pollinators in our own backyards. Here is a wonderful article published by The Nature Conservancy on this topic, this time with a national and international flavor. Also, enjoy all the wonderful drawings by Lisel Jane Ashlock. https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/planting-for-pollinators/

Can we be Nature’s Best Hope?

By: Stacey Wildberger Wouldn’t you love to step out into your yard and be in the largest National Park in the U.S.? To be part of the solution to diminishing ecosystems and loss of habitat? According to Doug Tallamy, author and entomologist at the University of Delaware if we convert just 1/2 of the turf […]

Spotlight on Native Plants

By: Stacey Wildberger If you follow Cape Conservation Corps on Facebook you will recognize these plants. I have been highlighting a different type of native plant each week based on feedback from a survey I conducted. The most popular requests were for host plants for butterflies, “any native” perennial, shrubs and ferns. This month’s article […]