March 11th, 2010
Lawns are now the largest crop grown in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (more than 3.8 million acres covering a staggering 9.5% of the watershed’s total land area) and a principal source of Bay pollution. Each year area residents routinely over-fertilize their lawns (especially in the spring). The excess nitrogen and phosphorus flows into rivers and the Bay creating “dead zones” where aquatic life (fish, crabs, and oysters) cannot survive.
The Corsica River Conservancy has partnered with the Queen Anne’s County Master Gardeners and the Natural Resources Conservation Service to encourage people to adopt common sense practices when maintaining their lawns. As part of our campaign we have developed a simple, easy to read poster (click on image below) on the benefits of a low maintenance lawn.
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March 11th, 2010
DOD’s Operational Noise Manual: Section 3.1 is most applicable.
The Noise Pollution Clearinghouse is a national non-profit organization with extensive online noise related resources.
Studiotechnik Aufnahmetechnik Tontechnik Forum Sengpielaudio has highly technical information on acoustic noise. Don’t worry, it’s in English.
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March 11th, 2010
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March 10th, 2010
The topic of the Foreign Affairs Security Training Center (FASTC) has dominated our lives and our household for three months now and rightfully so. I can’t remember the last time I or my husband got a good night’s sleep. Our daughter moved out on her own recently and we hardly see her. Our son is a senior in high school this year and while dinner conversation should revolve around caps and gowns, graduation parties and college plans, it speaks more of bomb explosions and gunfire. Through all this turmoil; however, I have found two wonderful outcomes I am always the one to find the silver lining.
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March 9th, 2010
[I do my best to keep this current. Be sure to scroll all the way through the list. Some newer stuff might appear at the top of this page]
Announcements
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March 5th, 2010
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (ESLC) has recently received several inquiries regarding our position regarding the proposed Foreign Affairs Training Facility (FASTC) project. ESLC’s position on FASTC is as follows:
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March 5th, 2010
When you see this photo, what do you think should be going on here? You see farmland — and so you might think that families here in Ruthsburg, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, should keep working the land, as they have for generations. You see a sign pointing to nearby Tuckahoe State Park — and so you might think about canoeing and hiking.
What does not appear in this photo is the federal government’s proposal for this land: a 2,000 acre terrorism defense training center, complete with gun-firing ranges, urban-style environments where mock terrorist assaults will be staged, and tracks where guards will be trained to evade roadside bombs.
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