Forests are our most strategically important natural resource. Trees protect water quality, clean our air and provide wildlife habitat. One large tree can eliminate 5,000 gallons of stormwater runoff each year, and well placed trees can help reduce energy costs by 15 to 35 percent.
Trees also enhance our quality of life, beautifying neighborhoods and highways, providing sound barriers and shade, and helping increase property values.
Today the State of Maryland is partnering with businesses, communities and citizens like you to help fund and plant new tree cover. Our State agencies are working to plant 1 million new trees by 2011, and we’re asking private citizens to join us by planting 50,000 trees by 2010.
Explore the Marylanders Plant Trees website for advice on where, how and what type of trees to plant, and discount coupons – made possible through environmental mitigation fines and participating vendors -- for your tree purchases. Then, come back and register the trees you’ve planted, site them on our interactive map and calculate their benefits to you and our planet! |
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Living Shoreline Construction has Begun! |
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Loch Haven was awarded another grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust to create a living shoreline in front of the swing set on the beach. The area has suffered from significant erosion. The living shoreline will recapture and stabilize the shoreline as well as create a wetland improving water quality and creating habitat for bay creatures such as crabs and fish. Construction has begun and will take approximately two weeks. Please keep clear of trucks and/or equipment. Once completed, both ends of Cape Loch Haven (the beach) will be stabilized ensuring it will be available for future generations to enjoy! |
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