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• A Conservation Vision Becomes Reality: Fedak Property Easement- The easement, which was signed and recorded in December, provides a boost for land preservation and water quality in the Catoctin Mountains. It helps to ensure that the Fedaks’ vision for keeping the property as farmland and forest forever will manifest in reality.
  
  
• Trout Unlimited's Conservation Success Index - The Conservation Success Index is a GIS-based model that integrates fish data (from the Eastern Brook Trout Venture and other GIS data) to score subwatersheds; this helps to paint the picture of conditions of fish communities & subwatershed landscapes and prioritize protection and restoration efforts.
  
  
• Preservation Program Expanded for Farmers - In September 2009, Governor Martin O'Malley announced the approval of a program that will provide funding to acquire permanent conservation easements on streamside forests, natural areas, and wetlands that have been restored through the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). Frederick County has been deemed a top priority of this program.

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• Clean Water is in the Bag - The Potomac Watershed Partnership, in cooperation with Maryland Forest Service, the Monocacy River Watershed Restoration Action Strategy Committee, and other state, county, and local conservation groups can help by offering the Backyard Buffers Program to Frederick County homeowners.  If you have a drainage ditch, stream, creek, or river flowing through your property or live adjacent to such a waterway, you could qualify for a free “Buffer in a Bag”.
  
  
• 22nd Potomac River Watershed Cleanup - Time to remove those refrigerators, shoes, shopping carts, and anything else you can think of, from our Potomac River Watershed. 
  
  
• Worthington Manor Golf Course : Wetland Enhancement & Riparian Buffer Project- Frederick County Watershed Management Section (WMS) staff has worked with Potomac Conservancy, Ducks Unlimited, and Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage to develop a wetland enhancement project that also includes the establishment of a robust riparian buffer. 

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• Bar-T Mountainside Earth Day Community Festival - Mark your calendars, on April 24 Bar-T will be having its first Earth Day Community Festival at Mountainside.
  
  
• Woodland Wildlife Habitat- Most of our native woodland wildlife lives in and around trees utilizing hollow sections of the tree or building a nest somewhere in the canopy.  

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• Register Now for the Neighborhood Green Training- Would you like to learn how to design a sustainable and environmentally friendly landscape for your property and acquire the tools necessary to make your vision a reality? If so then we welcome you to attend the Neighborhood Green training scheduled for May 11, 18, and 25 in Frederick, Maryland. 
  
  
• City of Frederick Arbor Day Celebration- The City of Frederick will be celebrating its 30th year as a Tree City U.S.A. on Arbor Day, April 7, 2010. The Arbor Day program will take place at Lincoln Elementary School on Madison Street at 1:30 PM.  Lincoln Elementary School is home to an Arboretum and the new Earth and Space Science Laboratory.
  
  
• Frederick County Comprehensive Plan Update - “Many Places, Once Community”  aptly describes Frederick County and is the title of the 400+ page comprehensive land use plan to be adopted by the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on April 8, 2010. 

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Educate

• Volunteer Frederick Receives Grant Award - Volunteer Frederick is excited to announce that they are the recipients of a 2010 State Farm Youth Advisory Board Grant!
  
  
• VIDEO: The Importance of Streamside Forests to Chesapeake Bay Waterways- Studies by internationally acclaimed Stroud Water Research Center have shown that healthy forests bordering streams not only prevent numerous pollutants from reaching the water, but also multiply the stream’s natural ability to cleanse itself of pollutants that do make their way into the water.
  
  
• Marylanders Plant Trees School Challenge - The Marylanders Plant Trees encourages citizens to plant and register 50,000 trees each year to help improve air, water and quality of life in Maryland. To help meet that goal the state is announcing a School Challenge for all Maryland elementary, middle and high schools.

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Study

• Studying Groundwater in Adams County, PA- In January 2010, the Adams County Water Resources Advisory Committee (ACWRAC) decided to move forward in creating a groundwater monitoring program in the Adams County, PA. 

• Frederick County Landscapes: Oak-Hickory Forests - Oak – Hickory forests are the most common woodland communities in Frederick County occupying about 70% of the forest land base or an estimated 80,000 acres.

• News from the Frederick County Public Schools Schoolyard Habitat Program- The NOAA BWET grant program works to educate students about the important connections between the water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and their local watersheds and land use on their school campuses.

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