Mountain Reflections Light Show
Everyday in December from 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Allegany County - Rocky Gap State Park 12500 Pleasant Valley Rd Flintstone, MD
Lights On The Bay
Everyday in December from 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Location: Anne Arundel County - Sandy Point State Park 1100 East College Parkway Annapolis, MD 21401
Winter Lights Festival
Sunday through Thursday from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday from 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Location: Montgomery County - Seneca Creek State Park 11950 Clopper Road Gaithersburg, MD 20878
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Smart, Green & Growing
Tip of the Week:
Each year, Americans generate an additional 5 million tons of waste each holiday season; wrapping paper and shopping bags make up 80 percent of this waste. Reduce the amount of trash that ends up in your community landfill by saving tissue paper, gift bags and boxes for reuse and recycling torn paper and other packaging at a local recycling center.
DNR Proposes Blue Crab
Harvest Regulations for 2009 Season
Maryland Department of Natural Resources proposed recreational and commercial blue crab harvest
regulations for the 2009 season. Designed to help rebuild the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population
and fishery, the proposed regulations continue the scientifically established conservation goals of
reducing female blue crab harvest by 34 percent and ensuring that no more than 46 percent of the
blue crab population is harvested annually.
Habichat Winter 2009
While turtles, frogs, and salamanders hibernate in the mud below the frost line and many birds migrate south from
your Maryland Wild Acre, mammals are here throughout the year. Learn about which animals are hibernating and which
are active all year long. Habichat is a quarterly electronic newsletter for stewards of Maryland’s backyard wildlife.
In this issue, learn about the American Holly and the Northern Cardinal, two seasonal favorites. There’s also a winter
activity for children that demonstrates how wildlife stay “Cozy in the Cold. “
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Firearm White-tailed Deer Season
Open in 21 Counties on Jan. 9 & 10
Maryland’s Firearm Deer Season reopens for white-tailed deer on January 9 and 10, 2009 in all Maryland counties
except Allegany and Garrett Counties. This two-day deer season provides additional opportunities for landowners
to manage deer numbers and offers hunters a late season opportunity. The firearm season in Deer Management
Region A (Allegany and Garrett Counties) and the sika deer firearm season remains closed.
Famous Travelers: Edison, Ford, Firestone
During the week of July 21-27, 1921, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone camped at a site about six miles east of Hancock in Washington County. During the weekend, President Warren G. Harding joined the “vagabonds” — the name the wealthy industrialists gave themselves when they camped together. In the 2nd part of a series, Frances Zumbrun, Manager of Green Ridge State Forest, shares with us that although the vagabonds had passed through Maryland in the past, this was the first time they actually camped here.
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