natural resources

Harford County planning officials have asked officials with the Love Fellowship Christian Center Inc. of Bel Air to revise their plans to build a church in Abingdon to ensure there is enough space between the church property and existing residential and school property.

Department of Natural Resources goes before the state Board of Public Works to request approval to buy a conservation easement on 209 acres of land next to Sweet Air section of Gunpowder Falls State Park for $995,000.

Officials with the Army's Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground and energy supplier Constellation Retail recently signed three-year agreement to explore alternative energy sources for the Harford County Army post as leaders across the military and federal government look for ways to reduce the amount of energy used at their facilities.

A striped bass poaching case that began in February 2011 with a discovery of mysterious, illegally set nets full of tens of thousands of pounds of striped bass off of Kent Island is finally coming to a close.

The first residential solar co-operative in the Baltimore metro area was launched last week.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources imposed new rules and regulations on water jet pack businesses in Ocean City and elsewhere to keep thrill-seekers safe.

Three people have died in Maryland waters in as many days, and a U.S. Coast Guard search is underway for another who went missing Monday

The closest most people have probably ever gotten to reptiles on an aircraft was while snacking on popcorn in the movie theater watching Samuel L. Jackson battle the venomous creatures in the 2006 action thriller ¿Snakes on a Plane.¿ But 49-year-old Tammy McCormack has seen aircraft-slithering snakes up close and personal.

Climate change will prompt the next industrial revolution

A five-member team of students from Carroll County's Venturing Crew 202 won the 24th annual Maryland Envirothon — an outdoor natural resources competition that challenges students to identify and categorize living resources, perform soil surveys and solve other complex natural resource issues.

Tucked amid the woods of northern Baltimore County is one of Maryland's natural gems – the Big Gunpowder Falls, a nationally renowned trout stream that draws anglers from far and wide to try their skills and luck in the cold, rushing water.

Maryland's senior senator is key figure in supporting EPA's clean water regulations

The gunshot wound suffered by a Virginia man while kayaking in Pasadena in April may have been self-inflicted, Maryland Natural Resources Police said Monday.

Robert Matysek, of South Carolina, died after an apparent cardiac arrest approximately one mile into the 4.4-mile Great Chesapeake Bay Swim on Sunday.

The Park Service's decision to close a parking lot off Jones Road in Gunpowder Falls State Park in Maryland to curb overuse of natural resources draws criticism.

On Wednesday, 35 members of North Harford High School's Class of 2014 will have the additional distinction of being the first graduating seniors to complete the school's magnet program, Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences.

Two Kent Island men were found dead in the Chesapeake Bay Saturday morning after their small boat apparently was swamped with water, Natural Resources Police said.

Last Saturday was meant to be a pleasurable morning (or day) of perch fishing. It turned out to be a bit more of an adventure for Dave Meadows, 51, of Street.

A Street man was able to rescue a bald eagle tangled in a fishing line Saturday, an incident that ended up being one of three eagle-related calls Maryland Natural Resources Police handled that morning in Central Maryland.

Perryville's Spring Fling is May 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of the Community Fire Company of Perryville

One of the busiest Saturdays of the spring is coming up in Harford County on April 26, featuring four events that many people have taking to marking their calendars for each year.

Dr. Torrey C. Brown, the former secretary of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources who banned fishing for rockfish, died of heart disease Sunday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Severna Park resident was 77.

In the contest between osprey and traffic camera, it's a question of which will blink first.

The Harford Land Trust (HLT) named Ben Lloyd president of its board of directors at its annual membership meeting held March 22 at Fiore Winery.

Two watermen were fined nearly $1,500 for oyster poaching on the Eastern Shore, the first conviction using a network of radar and cameras the state launched in 2010 to detect illegal seafood harvesting.

What will happen to Cove Point when all the natural gas is gone?

Today the comprehensive work being done by departmental staff and contractors to determine whether and how natural gas production from the Marcellus Shale in Maryland can be realized without unacceptable risk to public health, safety, the environment and natural resources is on track. Significant changes to this approach being advocated by some in the legislature are not only unnecessary, but would likely undermine the effort.

Maryland's Safe-Drilling Advisory Commission can show nearly finalized recommendations for overhauling the regulation of gas drilling, but other major undertakings are still in the works. Together, these unfinished studies form the backbone of a final report due in about 150 days, on Aug. 1. We propose that there is no way to meet this deadline — for good reasons.

A man and woman have been charged with child abuse after Natural Resources Police officers found them living with their two boys in squalid conditions aboard a sailboat in the Magothy River.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed state budget would be balanced in part with funds shifted from programs meant to buy parkland and protect farmland from development. Conservationists say the move short-changes land preservation, which they note has been a priority of the O'Malley administration.

Environmental activists warn that construction of a 21-mile natural gas pipeline through northern Baltimore and Harford counties could affect the region's drinking-water system, as the $180 million project would cut across more than three dozen streams that feed into Loch Raven Reservoir.

Maryland Natural Resources Police are investigating the killing of two bald eagles in Montgomery County over the past week.

The weeks leading to the holidays tend to be the most active for oyster poachers in the Chesapeake Bay, but the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and State Police were hoping in recent days that new technology and harsher penalties would help them crack down on illegal oyster harvesting.

Maryland is experiencing what may prove to be a once-in-a-lifetime explosion of snowy owls, a captivating bird of prey normally found in the Arctic.

Some long-gone oysters from prehistoric times are going to play a role in restoring the Chesapeake Bay's current crop of bivalves. Maryland has purchased 112,500 tons of fossilized oyster shells for $6.3 million from a quarry in Florida to help rebuild the state's degraded oyster beds.

Alcuin H. "Al" Krebs, a retired city public schools reading resource teacher and World War II combat Marine, died Monday of Alzheimer's disease at Brightwood assisted living in Catonsville. He was 86.

One person James Christopher Bills died, and two others were taken to a local hospital after a fishing boat capsized in Essex Wednesday, according to Natural Resources Police.

The county serving as backup has worked fairly well to date, and it will remain sufficient for then next few years while the water authority issue is being hashed out and decided.