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Rock Creek Conservancy has launched an initiative to save Rock Creek's trees. We're teaming with the National Park Service and Montgomery County Parks in an effort to eliminate English ivy from park trees and working with neighbors to get ivy off trees near the parks.

Score Card: 1,772 trees since November!

Thank you to the wonderul cleanup leaders and volunteers who participated in the 5th Annual Rock Creek Extreme Cleanup in April!.  Check our map of cleanup locations.

Many thanks to Montgomery County Parks, the National Park Service, and the Alice Ferguson Foundation for their partnerships and the Chesapeake Bay Trust and REI for generous financial support for the cleanup.

Over the past year, we took a hard look at how we could best move forward.  We surveyed our members, conducted interviews, held focus groups, reviewed information, and debated possible courses of action.  The result is a strategic plan that will guide our work for the next three years.  We invite you to read the plan and join us in our work to protect the lands and waters of Rock Creek and revitalize Rock Creek Park for people to treasure and enjoy!

Over a hundred volunteers came out to celebrate the Martin Luther King Day by volunteering with Rock Creek Conservancy.  Kids and adults from across the area came out to make our parks more healthy and beautiful.  And President Obama, who fielded 15 Cabinet members to participate in the National Day of Service, sent Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to work with us!