MWDI, Ducks Unlimited, & HSBC USA
Volunteers Making a Difference
21 Volunteers Cut 2,500+ Board Feet of Cedar at Stevens Tools in Annapolis
RESULTS: More than 350 wood duck boxes will be created from these efforts!

17 MWDI and 4 HSBC USA volunteers (as part of their $5k support of  Ducks Unlimited Harford County wildlife projects, including the wood duck program) gathered at Stevens Tools in Annapolis May 5th to cut up 2,500+ board feet of cedar into box kits for MWDI public projects and to deliver 1,200 board feet to the J. M. Tawes Career and Technology Center and Harford County Ducks Unlimited Chapter for their use in making wood duck boxes.

More than 350 wood duck boxes will be created from these efforts. 63 of the box kits were ordered for various private programs and the Tawes students will build 50 boxes that will be available for private purchase in the fall of 2008.

More than 150 of the kits were pre-assembled for completion during 5 upcoming youth events!

• Harford County's Greenwing Day on June 7th

• Chestertown Wildlife Exhibition & Sale on October 18

• DNR's National Hunting and Fishing Day on September 27

• Maryland Envirothon on June 18

• Federalsburg Boy Scouts to complete nest boxes for their town

Note: Staff and volunteers at the Baltimore Aquarium's outdoor event in Baltimore May 12th will also assemble kits.

Thanks for Paying for the Lumber!

100 Kits

Special thanks to the people who volunteered!

• Mark Stevens of Stevens Tools for allowing us to completely dominate and dust his storage area, for the use of his multiple tools and his help.

• Scott Jasion, Harford County Ducks Unlimited, and Brent Evans, MD DNR, for their time, trucks and trailers to move the wood from the yard in Charles County to Annapolis and then delivering to the Eastern Shore and to Harford County.

•  John Loughlin, Bonnie Emig, Lynne Lincoln, and Susanne Matthews of HSBC for their enthusiastic efforts

• MWDI Advisory Board Members John Chew, Rich Mason, Chip Heaps and Buzzy Abbott for their multiple tasks

• Ducks Unlimited's Phil Poux for his time and truck

• Master cutters Jim Colbeck and Bill Askins

• Entrance hole cutters Tom Schmidt and Nick Nichols

• Overall help and moral support from Chris Brown and Capt. Ned Shuman

• Special thanks to the neighboring worker who took all the scrap cedar for firewood!