Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wheaton Patch highlights star bloggers in its Local Voices section.
Have you ever explored the Local Voices section on Wheaton Patch's home page? This week we highlight some of the fantastic blogs written there by community members. Improving Your Soil "If we ever want to see cool, clean water flowing through Sligo Creek, we will have to stop treating our soil like dirt." Ed Murtagh, the chair of the Friends of Sligo Creek Stormwater Committee and a board member of GreenWheaton, writes about the importance of good soil for retaining water, improving drainage and filtering out harmful pollutants. Learn more about how to improve your soil. Friends of Immigrant Center Take Part in the Spirit of Thanksgiving The Charles Gilchrist Center for Cultural Diversity, an important resource center in Wheaton for …
Friday, September 21, 2012
Sept. 29 is National Public Lands Day.
This fall’s Sweep the Creek stream clean-up, organized by Friends of Sligo Creek, will be held on Sept. 29 from 9-11 a.m. and Sept. 30 from 1-3 p.m. Sept. 29 is also National Public Lands Day. More than 170,000 volunteers nationwide are expected to participate. There are three Sweep the Creek locations in the Wheaton area: University to Dennis Ave: Whitehall Bridge, a short distance up from the Dennis Ave. Recreation Center. From the parkway at Dennis, drive north past the Dennis Recreation Center to the middle bridge over Sligo Creek. (The bridge path connects Gridley Lane/Sligo Middle School fields to the west, and Whitehall/Tenbrook to the east.) There's a small parking turnout along the parkway that will be readily visible. Upstream …
Monday, November 7, 2011
Open period for public comments ends November 10.
Since 1999, Montgomery County’s Department of Parks has conducted police-based sharpshooting in 17 county parks to manage the deer overpopulation issue by reducing the herd sizes. Early next year, those sharpshooters may train their rifles on the Sligo Creek area. It is estimated that the Sligo Creek Park area can support up to ten deer without significant damage to the ecosystem, yet current population estimates place the deer herd numbers at ten times that figure. While the ultimate decision to undertake a deer herd thinning effort resides with Montgomery Parks Director Mary Bradford, a number of factors are taken into account. “We look at the impact of deer on natural ecosystems, the number of auto accidents, the feasibility of taking …
Jack Crawford
5:17 pm on Thursday, November 10, 2011
One can see deer behind the Home Depot before dark and I have seen them in the afternoon from the Connecticut Ave. bridge over Mathew Hensen State Park. There are too many of them, but I don't see why they belong to King John or whoever the dictator of Montgomery County is now. more ›