From Friends of Harford: Legislative Bill 16-02 Zoning – Natural Resource District Friends of Harford believes Bill 16-02 Zoning – NRD Natural Resource District is a bad and destructive bill. It says nontidal wetlands less than 40,000 square feet will no longer be considered Natural Resource Districts, a designation intended to protect them from being […]
Rocks Do Over: Route 24 Project To Begin Anew With Promise Of Cooperation
The State Highway Administration has wiped its slate clean and will be starting anew on plans to repair Route 24 through Rocks State Park – this time promising to work in concert with a contingent of scientists, planners, environmentalists, elected officials and citizen activists. During the first meeting of the DNR/SHA Advisory Committee for MD […]
Saving The Rocks: SHA To Reevaluate Plans For Blasting In State Park
The Maryland State Highway Administration is backing away from an aggressive highway improvement plan, which would have closed portions of Rocks State Park for several months in each of the next two summers while demolition crews blasted away portions of the historic boulders that give the park its name. The Route 24 Slope Protection Project, […]
DNR Funds Bush River And Otter Point Creek Dredging in Harford
From the Maryland Department of Natural Resources: HARFORD COUNTY, Md. (December 22, 2009) — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Waterway Improvement Fund has provided state funding to Harford County to dredge areas in the Bush River and Otter Point Creek. The project will provide access for hundreds of recreational boaters to two popular […]
