natural resources
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Aberdeen native, Nat Kreamer, 37, was honored at the White House alongside 11 other U.S. veterans for advancing the areas of clean energy and climate security on Tuesday morning. - The call for the wild is being heard again across Maryland – though not everyone welcomes it.
- In what some see as a major test of the O'Malley administration's efforts to strengthen Maryland's Smart Growth policies, state officials are pressing Charles County's elected officials to back off a hotly disputed plan for development that state officials contend would degrade a vital Chesapeake Bay tributary and open up large swaths of farmland to sprawling housing projects.
- Maryland's annual black bear hunt went into overtime Saturday, as hunters in Garrett and Allegany counties tried to help the state Department of Natural Resources reach its quota of taking between 95 and 130 bears.
- As police investigated allegations that a Maryland fisherman was poaching striped bass, he decided to mount a campaign of witness intimidation in the hope the trouble would go away, according to federal charges unsealed Wednesday.
- A Tilghman Island commercial fisherman has been charged with witness tampering and intimidation in a federal investigation into alleged poaching of striped bass from the Chesapeake Bay, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
- Pasadena resident Bill Hubick and Jim Brighton of Easton launched the Maryland Biodiversity Project, an effort to do something no one has ever done — catalog examples of every living thing in Maryland on one website: marylandbiodiversity.com.
- Harford County received $1.5 million in state grants to buy land easements in the Deer Creek Rural Legacy Area, continuing to make it one of the best-funded legacy areas in Maryland, Harford County's agricultural preservation head said.
- The body of a swimmer missing since Sunday night in Patapsco Valley State Park was found Monday afternoon in turbulent waters of the Patapsco River just below the Bloede Dam, a spokesman for Maryland Natural Resources Police said.
- Search crews with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources are scheduled to return to the Bloede Dam in Patapsco Valley State Park this morning to resume a search for a swimmer who went missing Sunday night
- Three heritage tourism projects located in the Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway AREA have been awarded nearly $140,000 in matching grants from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, the Greenway organization announced.
- With Maryland weighing some of the toughest regulations in the nation on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, environmentalists and some property owners are questioning whether the rules go far enough to safeguard drinking water, natural resources and the public's health. An industry representative, meanwhile, warned that some proposed rules might be so strict that no company would want to drill in the state.
- These are tough times for the ducks that winter on the Chesapeake Bay.
- An alarming spike in the number of fatalities over the past three years on Maryland waterways has prompted Gov. Martin O'Malley and the Natural Resources Police to encourage boaters and swimmers to take part in Operation Dry Water this weekend.
- William Jabine II, a former Evening Sun reporter who later became spokesman for the old State Roads Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Catonsville Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 90.
- In terms of cost and safety, nuclear power can't hold a candle to renewable energy sources
- Saturday's planting of 30 bushels of infant oysters was the first Marylanders Grow Oysters effort in the Patapsco River.
- The boat burst into flames around noon Monday as passengers were trying to restart a stalled motor.
- A nine-year federal survey of frogs, toads, salamanders and the like found widespread precipitous declines in their populations but drew no conclusions about why.
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- Health officials were correct to euthanize baby fox saved by firefighters
- What good is cheap energy if its extraction ends up costing us more?
- Spring has arrived just in time to help celebrate Prettyboy Reservoir Day this Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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- Farmers observe Earth Day every day. Where asphalt and pavement turn to gravel and dirt, you will find men and women rising early, greeting the day and working the earth.
- Biodiversity conference opens in Baltimore
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- The Chesapeake Bay's waters have been a bit chillier than normal in recent days, which could make blue crabs that much slower to stir from their winter slumber. But bay water temperatures have been about normal overall, scientists say. It's too soon to predict, they add, if cool spring weather will impact harvest later in the year, when most Marylanders are looking for their favorite seafood.
- Health risks from fracking would fall disproportionately on minorities and the poor
- Pennsylvania's headlong plunge into drilling for natural gas from Marcellus shale formations has produced winners and losers. Businesses catering to the energy industry have opened or expanded, and some landowners who signed leases allowing wells to be drilled on their property have profited. But critics say fracking has polluted wells and threatens the environment.
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- Bay Program director sees progress toward cleanup but warns it's too soon to declare victory
- In its Land Preservation, Parks and Recreation Plan, Harford County hopes to add recreational opportunities and facilities to meet the needs of the public, provide and healthy opportunities for county residents, acquire additional land for recreation purposes and incorporate sustainable development and conservation practices, the county's parks and rec director told members of the Darlington/Dublin Community Council at their meeting Wednesday night
- In-school archery program reaches more than 10 million nationally
- What will the Town of Bel Air be like five years from now? Ten years from now? A comprehensive plan adopted by the Board of Town Commissioners at the Jan. 22 town meeting attempts to answer these questions by looking at where the town is today, how it is perceived by residents and at where it wants to go in the future.
