natural resources
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Maryland's defensive linemen exercised caution every time they got close to C.J. Brown during Saturday morning's spring practice. - DNR scaling back its fee increase for hunting licenses. Department doesn't want to discourage younger hunters from participating.
- Celebrate the Refuge System's birthday Bash Saturday, March 10 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the National Wildlife Visitor Center. See live animals and enjoy crafts and performances by Billy B!. Ride the first Tram tours of the year.
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- Harford County Councilman wants county to consider using APG waste-to-energy site for transfer station
- Without money to pay for pruning, feeding and watering, efforts to expand Baltimore's tree canopy are doomed
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- Feds seek landowners help saving at-risk wildlife, including MD's rare bog turtles
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- The 1961-62 Hawks ran out of Pylesville to grab a Class B state title a half century ago
- Natural gas: Proposed Cove Point facility would set back the state's efforts to make environmental progress
- Peyton Skipwith Cochran Jr., a longtime Rouse Co. executive who helped develop shopping centers but was deeply interested in land preservation, died Thursday at Springwell Senior Living in Baltimore after suffering a stroke. He was 85.
- Republicans are the ones who have never held Big Oil accountable for prices or profits
- In addition to the well-publicized tax increases that Gov. Martin O'Malley is proposing this year, his administration is also calling for a wide range of increases in the fees Marylanders pay for specific services — from recording an adoption to getting a copy of a death certificate.
- 5 questions with Dr. Richard Ruggiero, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist. Expert will speak about saving African animals Wednesday at Quiet Waters Park.
- Civil War: Museum marks USS Monitor's 150th anniversary
- Why weren't Republicans whining about high gas prices during the Bush years?
- At a time when he is trying to increase every tax on the books, Gov. Martin O'Malley is wrong to pursue an offshore wind power plan that will drive up our utility bills.
- Organizers have canceled the 2012 Bumper Bash, a rowdy annual summer boat gathering in the Magothy River near the privately owned Dobbins Island.
- Clinton Fisk Wells Jr., a retired U.S. Department of Agriculture statistician and a World War II veteran, died Saturday from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his Oak Crest Village retirement community home. He was 88.
- With funding from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, scientists at Patuxent Wildlife Refuge Center in Laurel are pioneering studies to understand the lifestyle of East Coast sea ducks to find out how they could be affected by offshore wind turbine farms.
- Carl H. Rauschenberg Sr., a retired Baltimore County police officer and Carroll county farmer, died Monday of cardiovascular disease at Ridge Overlook Assisted-Living in Westminster. He was 98.
- Study finds US cities, including Baltimore, losing trees
- Outrageously partisan House transportation bill is the latest sign that Washington can't keep the nation's roads, bridges and transit systems running
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- The first hike in the state's hunting license fees has caused a stir among the hunting community in terms both the increase itself and the timing of the bill.
- The Carroll County commissioners have asked county employees to attend a seminar on the Maryland Constitution led by a conservative minister, prompting concerns over separation of church and state:
- Writing land use policy into the charter that seeks to direct housing to appropriate areas while preserving agricultural land will probably serve largely as window dressing, and the more detailed zoning classifications and water and sewer plans will be the documents that really call the dance. Still, it wouldn't hurt to have something on the books that sets a tone for the big picture.
- Dorchester woodlands named for MD's first forester, Fred W. Besley
- Gasoline prices in Maryland and across the nation are climbing fast, and motorists could see $4 a gallon at the pump in the coming months, fueled by stiff demand in China and India and turmoil in the oil-rich Middle East, experts said.
- Annual Great Back Yard Bird Count, this year at the recently reopened Robert E. Lee Park, allows Cornell University in New York and the National Audubon Society to collect valuable bird migration data.
- Board disbands as it releases final report, to be considered by county council
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- Most sources of excess nutrients in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are strictly regulated, but the agriculture industry — and particularly, Big Chicken — get a pass.
- Republican's attack on President Obama's 'phony theology' demonstrates the candidate's extremist views that make him a poor choice for the nomination
- Natural gas and water service restored to most southwest Baltimore households that lost them last week
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- To pay for waterway improvements and maritime safety efforts, state natural resources officials are proposing to increase boating registration fees for the first time in nearly three decades.
- Hunters best option to control Howard County's deer population
- Maryland state officials say hundreds of birds were killed on Interstate 95 near Laurel, bringing traffic to a crawl.
- Federal rules to protect endangered fish complicate restocking
- A swath of the Millhill neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore lost natural gas and water service early Tuesday — and gas outages may continue for several days, according to the utility operators.