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"Grants are available for teachers and community members interested in involving youth in wildlife habitat projects.The grants will benefit not only education but wildlife on schoolyards, public areas or community lands.The deadline for applying for the Homes for Wildlife Action Grant Program is Feb. 1.This New Hampshire Fish and Game Department program provides mini-grants of $300-$600.Habitat projects create spaces for outdoor learning, and can range from a butterfly garden to shrubs for birds to a pond for amphibians.The program is designed to support projects which create or enhance habitat for wildlife, and to provide inquiry-based, hands-on learning opportunities.The grant program is funded by the Conservation License Plate fund also known as the \"Moose plate.\"\"We're looking for youth-driven action projects that will directly benefit wildlife,\" says Marilyn Wyzga, coordinator of the Project HOME schoolyard habitat program at Fish and Game. \"Projects with the best chance of long-term success involve assembling a team of staff, students, community members and resource professionals.\"For example the Lebanon Middle School received $600 to work in a woodland adjacent to the school to remove invasives, plant woodland natives alongside a new trail, and amend a wetland with suitable native plants to benefit local wildlife.The Canterbury Elementary School was awarded $600 to plant shrubs, perennials and annuls to establish a pollinator garden, install wildlife feeding stations, and provide water for wildlife on their site.The Cumings Conservation Center in Deerfield was given $500 to install a pond with a solar pump, and Riverbends 4-H Club received $300 to install and maintain six wood duck boxes in the Connecticut River Oxbow.Grant applications will be evaluated by Project HOME staff and biologists and educators from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.For a proposal packet, visit http://www.wildnh.com/Education/project_HOME.html and download the packet, or write to Marilyn Wyzga, Public Affairs Division, N.H. Fish and Game Department, 11 Hazen Drive, Concord, N.H. 03301; email marilyn.wyzga@wildlife.nh.gov; or call 603-271-3211.19003418"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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