NASA-owned forest in Maryland wins new reprieve
Bay Journal The mostly forested NASA property in the headwaters of the Anacostia River in...
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Author: Timothy Wheeler
NASA wants to sell 105 acres of woods it owns in Greenbelt; environmentalists, Cardin, Hoyer opposed ; next-door U.S. wildlife refuge says it can’t afford to buy
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has used its orbiting satellites to help...
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After two years, consensus on oyster policy still elusive in Maryland
It’s hard to come together over oysters in Maryland. Two years ago, seeking to get past seemingly endless conflicts between environmentalists and watermen, Maryland lawmakers ordered fisheries managers to try a more consensus-based approach to managing the state’s oyster population. After meeting more than two dozen times, the DNR panel reported Dec. 1 that it had agreed on 19 recommendations — only one of which called for doing anything different about oyster management.
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Environmentalists, Shore officials oppose Conowingo settlement
Environmental groups and some rural Maryland officials are calling on federal regulators to reject the deal that the state has reached with the owner of the Conowingo Dam to address the harm the hydropower facility has caused to the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay. Spurred by that opposition, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers is making a bid to block the agreement through legislation.
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