Public Involvement

Become directly involved in stream and watershed protection through several of our public involvement initiatives for students, residents, and businesses, such as:

Environmental Partners
Environmental Partners is a dynamic new cooperative pollution prevention program between the Department of Environmental Protection and business leaders in a variety of county-based industries. Our goal is to help business leaders save money, time, labor and resources, while helping to protect and enhance the quality of our environment.

Internships
The Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection offers an opportunity for undergraduate students to apply their classroom knowledge in a real life setting as summer interns.  Programs are both paid Public Service Internships and unpaid volunteer positions.

Please contact the Department of Environmental Protection at 240.777.7770 to learn how you can be involved in helping our environment.

Watershed/Community Action Groups

Audubon Naturalist Society
8940 Jones Mill Rd. Chevy Chase, MD 20815
301.652.9188

Anacostia Watershed Society
The George Washington House
4302 Baltimore Avenue
Bladensburg, MD 20710
tel.: 301.699.6204
fax: 301.699.3317

The Eyes of Paint Branch Organization
tel. 301.890.1998
email: ptbrnchbob@eopb.org

Friends of Cabin John Creek Watershed
Contact Roy Seidenstein, (o) 202.260.2252

Friends of Sligo Creek
301.588.2071

Greater Sandy Spring Green Space
Robin Freedman, Executive Director, 301.260.8860

Izaak Walton League of America, National Chapter
Gwen Rozelle, (800) BUG-IWLA
email: sos@iwla.org

Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education

M-NCPPC Volunteer Center (lists county-wide opportunities)
tel. 301.495.2504

Montgomery County Sierra Club
Jim Fary, tel. 301.294.0466

Patuxent Reservoirs Watershed Protection Group
Contact: Jodye Russell

Potomac Conservancy
Contact: Matt Berres, Director of Watershed Program , 1730 North Lynn St., # 403, Arlington, VA 22209. 703.276.2777