What is STEW-MAP?

Across the country, people are planting and caring for trees, establishing community gardens, planning river cleanups, and organizing many other community greening efforts.  As people work together to create stronger, healthier, greener, and more resilient communities, they become the stewards of their local environment. These acts of stewardship critically contribute to the care of natural resources and the well-being of communities across urban and rural areas. Knowing about the individuals and groups that care for natural resources provides the potential for governments, nonprofits, and other organizations to leverage stewardship capacity in powerful ways to achieve outcomes that would otherwise be impossible with finite resources.