The RC&D has developed cooperative agreements with the US Fish and Wildlife Service for the a wide variety of conservation related partnership projects including stream modeling, stream habitat restoration, conservation planning, and environmental education services. Projects completed to date include … Continued
A demonstration partnership project with the Maryland DNR Game Bird Section and Garrett College is under way. This project will harvest small clear cuts of trees and slash consisting of five acres annually for three years. The goal is to … Continued
A partnership between Maryland Power Plant Research Program, Garrett College and Appalachian Labs for completing a benthic study to investigate macroinvertebrate utilization of coal combustion byproduct (CCB) grout substrates in the Hoyes Run waterway. This project is in progress and … Continued
The Office of Surface Mine’s (OSM) Appalachian Regional Office assisted the Western Maryland RC&D with the monitoring of mine tunnels and shafts in the Kempton Mine Complex. The OSM’s remote digital video camera allowed for the production of a digital … Continued
The RC&D has partnered with West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the MDE, Bureau of Mines for the construction and installation of a lime doser to treat acid mine drainage on Laurel Run. The project is complete; the lime … Continued
This recently completed partnership project with the Beaver Creek Watershed Association improved water quality and wildlife habitat that sustains a wild trout fishery, including additional spawning habitat for wild brown trout and rainbow trout. This WHIP project will also help … Continued
This partnership project with the USDA, National Arboretum is for the development of tree species which are short at maturity that will allow for planting in both urban and under power line applications.
This partnership project with private landowners, Garrett Soil Conservation District, Bureau of Mines, the Office of Surface Mining and others was to build an acid mine drainage treatment system on Aaron Run in Garrett County. The overall goal is to … Continued
The Western Maryland RC&D has developed a long term partnership with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Power Plant Research Program to assist with the research for finding environmentally acceptable and beneficial uses of solid coal combustion by-products (CCBs). The … Continued
The RC&D has entered into a Wildlife Habitat Improvement Program (WHIP) contract with the USDA, Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) for fish passage and stream habitat improvement on Little Falls Creek within the Gunpowder-Patapsco Watershed. The project is to partially … Continued
