Community
The Dunloggin Middle School Wetland Area has many benefits to the community as well. People enjoy the beautiful nature while walking their dogs. Several active community members also regularly clean up the area and help to improve it. Local Scouts BSA Troop 361 has also been active in improving the area. In the springtime, beautiful flowers can be seen. The Wetland Area is also home to some endangered species.
In October, 2013, Governor O'Malley and Howard County Executive, Ken Ulman, visited our wetland/stream environmental site to honor the students for all of the time and effort they have spent to make this remarkable site. In 2014 representatives from the US Department of Education visited our school as a part of their Green Ribbon School site tour. The project has received an Environmental Excellence Award from Sea World/ Busch Gardens/ Fuji Film, we were also awarded a Disney Minnie Certificate through Youth Service America, we have been honored by the US Green Building Council, and received recognition from our state senators, congressmen, Maryland State Board of Education, our Howard County Executive, Howard County school board members, Howard County Parks and Recreation, the Maryland Department of the Environment, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
DMS has an ongoing Oyster Restoration program in which we are working with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Kentmoor Marina in Stevensville, Maryland, the Oyster Recovery Partnership, Clearshark H2O, and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science- Horn Point Oyster Hatchery in Cambridge, Md. With the help of these agencies, our students raise oyster spat (baby oysters) throughout the year and relocate them to an oyster sanctuary reef in the Chesapeake Bay during their yearly trip to the Phillip Merrill Center of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
