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Five Maryland toll bridges to receive security upgrade
Five state-owned toll bridges will be getting an $11 million security upgrade, including new lighting, sensors to detect stopped vehicles and cameras to peer above and below the spans.
Work on the bridges — Bay, Key, Nice, Tydings and Hatem —...Tags: Annapolis, Television Networks, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Fishing, Natural Resources
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DNR firearms are not lost
A recent article in The Sun ("Audit faults gun loans," Dec. 12) may have led readers to inaccurately conclude that the Maryland Department of Natural Resources had "lost track" of hundreds of firearms used in its highly effective hunter safety education...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Annapolis, Firearms, Energy Resources, Conservation
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New tools aim to thwart striped bass poaching
Officers have returned to the scene of the crime, where last year they pulled up miles of illegal nets filled with 12.6 tons of striped bass from the frigid waters off Kent Island.
This year they are armed with new weapons: side-scan sonar to detect...Tags: Tilghman Island, Police Arrests, Energy Resources, Biology, Conservation
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Catonsville, Arbutus students compete at Baltimore County Envirothon
At the aquatics station, several dead fish were being examined and prodded by several teenagers, while others watched live critters swimming in bowls at another table. Elsewhere, a bird claw, an animal pelt and two different jawbones were under...
Tags: Energy Resources, Biology, Conservation, Forestry and Timber, Catonsville
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Thomson a voice for natural resources in Md.
I feel that you are making a grave error with your decision to cut the Outdoors Girl column from The Baltimore Sun. In an outdoor state such as Maryland, letting go of a community and statewide resource such as Candus Thomson is akin to obliterating a...Tags: Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Energy Resources, Washington Monument, Maryland, Liberty Bell
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Arborist says Baltimore tree canopy will improve after Grand Prix
I am extremely happy about the attention the press and citizens of Baltimore are devoting to the city's trees. The Sun's editorial ("Standing up for city trees" Aug 15) accurately highlights the crisis we face in increasing Baltimore's tree canopy while...Tags: Botany, Agricultural Research and Technology, Happiness (state of mind), Forests, Forestry and Timber
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Good deals could be had on farm wagons 100 years ago
100 Years Ago Winning ways of wagons In a large ad that week a headline screams, "Do You Want a Farm Wagon?" "I have a lot of celebrated Birdsall Farm Wagons, all styles, which I will close out a very low prices. Real Bargains. R.W. Carter, Sykesville,...Tags: Judges, Andrew Carnegie, Justice System, Lawyers, Sykesville
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As spring arrives, descendant of felled Wye oak tree rises in Guilford
Spring begins March 20, and a small but sturdy white oak tree is waiting with open branches.
It's not just any tree, but a link to history, standing tall — well, about 5.5 feet tall — in Guilford's Gateway Park.
This white oak is not...Tags: Energy Resources, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Conservation, Natural Resources
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Janet S. McKegg, DNR official
Janet S. McKegg, whose career with the Department of Natural Resources spanned nearly three decades, died Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Elternhaus, a Dayton assisted-living facility.
The former West Friendship resident was 58....Tags: College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Energy Resources, Biology, Conservation, Sykesville
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Avoid toll increases by shifting priorities
The Maryland Transportation Authority recently announced its intention to increase automobile tolls throughout Maryland, including a per car increase in the Chesapeake Bay Bridge toll from $2.50 to $8 by 2013. According to the MdTA, the justification...Tags: Personal Income, Medical Services, Finance, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Scott Walker
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Pumpkin ash, first in Arundel, now state champ
It's cool one August morning in a forest near the marsh, quiet but for the occasional bellowing of a few green frogs, and two experts on Maryland's flora and fauna are preparing for a sticky mission.
Earl "Bud" Reaves dons a wide-brimmed hat and pulls on...Tags: Botany, Conservation, Forestry and Timber, Maryland, Anne Arundel County
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As recruiting flags, Natural Resources Police take to skies
On Labor Day weekend, Ocean City sunbathers may notice an unusual come-on among the aerial banners touting happy-hour drink specials and marriage proposals: an invitation to join Maryland Natural Resources Police. Facing what it believed to be the...Tags: Justice System, Twitter, Inc., Energy Resources, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Medical Procedures and Tests
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