Through a cooperative agreement with the USDA-NRCS, WMRC&D has employed a Soil Conservation Technician to work with the Allegany and Garrett Soil Conservation Districts to facilitate structural practices on farms. The Soil Conservation Technician works with producers to complete … Continued
In partnership with the USDA-NRCS, WMRC&D helped to restore a deeply channelized seasonal stream in Somerset County by filling the bottom of the ditch and installing a rock ramp structure at the downstream end. Live stakes and trees were planted … Continued
Hoyes Run is a small meandering stream located near the town of McHenry in Garrett County, Maryland. The Maryland DNR biologists have noted a significant loss of flow along the stretch of the stream adjacent to an active, deep pit … Continued
In 2017, Frostburg Grows (FG) had its best vegetable production and sales year since starting in 2012. We grew and sold over $6,000 of produce to Chartwells at Frostburg State University (FSU) and other local buyers. The proceeds have helped … Continued
The possibility of establishing a local (Sharpsburg, MD) cooperative meat processor’s group to share the cost of convenient cold storage and to develop a cut and wrap facility that will allow farms to develop and expand locally grown meat products … Continued
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
