Native Return

City of Philadelphia Division of Aviation

Native Return creates ecosystems that attract wildlife, or in the case of an airport, repel wildlife protecting both aircraft and animals from potential harm.

Alternative Turf Grass and Native Meadow Projects

PECO, an Exelon Company
Montgomery and Chester Counties, PA

Conversion of twenty acre and twenty-eight acre utility right-of-ways from invasive growth to native grasslands, including additional high-profile upland restoration of right-of-way to native shrubland. Montgomery News coverage.

VIDEO: Native Return, LLC Transmission Line Wildlife Corridors

  Manor Road Right-of-Way Native Grassland Project
  2009 National BASF Corporation Quality Vegetation Management 'Project Habitat' Award
  2009 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Community Greening Award

Corporate campus lawn to meadow conversions

TOWNSHIP OF WHITEMARSH
Montgomery County, PA

Eight acre Manor Creek Stream Restoration Project. 2008 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Community Greening Award.

  McCarthy Park six acre reforestation project:
  2009 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
  Community Greening Award

Christina - Wanted to tell you how much I appreciate the job you did helping us get the Tree Vitalize Grant for the Manor Creek stream bank restoration project, and for your work in supervising the project's implementation -- from start to finish. It was a pleasure working with you, as I have seldom worked with a professional who was as dedicated, task oriented and so committed to see everything was done properly by all parties involved in the project. The compliments we have received from Supervisors and residents is further testimony to the quality of your work. Again, "Thank you."

Chris van de Velde
Township Manager

COLONIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
Montgomery County, PA

Ongoing native/biodiversity environmental consultant; grant applications for native conversion projects; NATIVE RETURN BIODIVERSITY GARDEN design; educational program development. The Colonial News coverage.

Athletic field woodland buffer projects
2009 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Community Greening Award

PRIVATE RESIDENCE, Lafayette Hill, PA

A residential lawn was converted to upland meadow, shrubland, ponds and attractive herbaceous perennial planting.

Awards:
Whitemarsh Township's 2008 Garden Contest Most Wildlife Friendly Garden
Whitemarsh Township's 2010 Garden Contest Best Commercial Garden
North American Native Plant Society 2010 Garden Restoration Award

Before & After

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