Corporate Lands for Learning^SM
Terrenos Corporativos de Aprendizaje

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Corporate Lands for Learning (CLL) opens doors to experience innovative teaching and learning techniques and the opportunity to involve your community in your conservation efforts!

CLL programs foster in learners, both children and adults, a clear understanding of the interdependence of ecology, economics, social structures and political process in both urban and rural areas.

Groups who can benefit from your efforts in establishing CLL: 

• Students, using your habitat as an "outdoor classroom," build essential knowledge in key concepts and skills;                     
• Scout groups can earn merit badges while assisting your team in habitat establishment, management or monitoring;                     
• College students and professors may conduct research or class studies in your habitat while providing your site with valuable information;                     
• Members of the community connect to the environment and learn about your company’s role as a thoughtful steward of the environment through nature trails and special events featuring your Wildlife at Work program.

CLL Certification
CLL certification provides certified Wildlife at Work sites with third party recognition for educational programs, as well as provides these sites with guidance on building, expanding, and evaluating education and outreach programs. Apply for CLL certification 

In order for a site to be certified as a CLL, the following requirements must be met: 

• CLL programs must be in place for one year prior to the certification application date.
• Sites must record at least ten hours of active learning, including education and outreach activities, as well as time spent planning for CLL programs.
• Sites must host a site visit from a representative of WHC’s Education and Outreach Department.

Resources are available to assist your site in establishing a CLL program. The Corporate Lands for Learning Guidebook: Opening Private Resources to Public Education can be obtained for $75 by contacting the Education and Outreach Department.

Free excerpts fropm the guidebook are also available here.

Exemplary CLL sites are considered for the annual Corporate Lands for Learning of the Year award, given out at the WHC Annual Symposium. This award is designed to recognize a site for outstanding environmental education, stewardship and voluntary employee efforts.

Start on the path to becoming one of the Wildlife Habitat Council’s Corporate Lands for Learning sites. Contact the Education and Outreach Department.

Attention active WHC sites!

In 2006, WHC began an introductory program for wildlife teams who wish to initiate the path to CLL and Wildlife at Work certification. Any active WHC team conducting educational or outreach activities can register their program as a Conservation Education Site (CES). WHC staff can assist your team in building your education program as you work towards CLL and Wildlife at Work certification. Learn more about CES!

Waste Management, Inc.'s GROWS/Tullytown in Pennsylvania serves as a partner in education with schools in the Pennsbury School District. The facility offers students a "classroom in the community" to study the basics of ecology, land use, air and water quality.

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