In Your State

A wooden bridge built across a stream with fall leaves lightly covering a rocky embankment.

CREDIT: TODD BUSH

State Affiliate Habitat Network

Thirty state affiliates of the National Wildlife Federation comprise the Affiliate Habitat Network. These leaders engage their local residents and community groups to increase habitat, while also advocating for policies and incentives that support native plant habitat expansion and other sustainable practices in their states.

This network has been instrumental in advocating across all of the National Wildlife Federation’s 52 state and territorial affiliates to adopt resolutions to protect pollinator populations, eliminate neonicotinoids, increase native plant supply and availability and other efforts to support habitat.

Affiliate Habitat Network members are official partners in Certified Wildlife Habitat® to invite their residents to co-certify with both National Wildlife Federation and the state affiliate. Certifiers opt in to receive national as well state recognition and can also purchase co branded signs to recognize their habitat at both national and state levels. State affiliates are then able to provide wildlife habitat garden tips and other educational opportunities about the unique to flora and fauna native to their state.

Check out the link for your state to learn of statewide and local resources for creating habitat where you live. Many affiliates offer workshops, native plant sales, and community events that support creating a Certified Wildlife Habitat®, pollinator pathways, monarch gardens, and more. Several state affiliates are expanding Community Wildlife Habitats and Mayors' Monarch Pledges in their respective states.