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Snow Guns Blazin'
Discounted Fishing License
Now through January 31, 2015, Marylanders who have not bought an annual nontidal or tidal fishing license since 2011 will automatically enjoy a 50% discount on their fishing license purchase.
It’s as simple as logging into the DNR Compass Licensing System or visiting a DNR Service Center or a tackle shop to buy a 2015 license. The discount is automatic, but only through January, 2015.
The promotion is designed to encourage anglers to return to Maryland waters and enjoy the excellent fishing the state has to offer.
Fishing is one of the best values in life, promoting quality time in nature with friends and family.
For a limited time, the already low cost of entry is just 50% better
More Information Here: http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2014/12/19/7807/
SNOW is in the Forecast!
Recreation Upgrades Set for Local Parks throughout Maryland
……In Garrett County, the town of Mountain Lake Park will receive $150,000 to acquire 100 acres to protect the Little Youghiogheny River watershed and its critical Brook Trout habitat from development. The town is contributing $52,000 toward the purchase, and intends to use the property for passive recreation, including adding trails to connect to the existing system in Loch Lynn Heights.
The project is a partnership between Program Open Space (local and state-side) and the town. The funding is comprised of $10,000 in POS local and $140,000 in POS state-side funds. In exchange, the town is granting DNR a perpetual conservation easement that requires buffers on about 7,000 linear feet of streams that feed into the Youghiogheny River.
Garrett County will also receive $13,140 to install fencing for a dog park at the 32-acre McHenry Park.
Read More Here: http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2014/12/17/recreation-upgrades-set-for-local-parks-throughout-maryland/
IT'S SANTA!
Haven’t told Santa what you want for Christmas yet? Here’s your chance! He will be at our Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales office on December 24th from 10am-12pm! Bring the kids and come enjoy a hot cup of cocoa and cookies with Santa Claus!
County Commissioners Announce Public Meeting Schedule
Public meetings of the Board of Garrett County Commissioners will be scheduled for the first Monday and third Tuesday of each month. Public meetings will commence at 4:00 PM in the Board’s Public Meeting Room.
More Information Here: http://garrettcounty.org/news/2014/12/county-commissioners-announce-public-meeting-schedule
Multiple Winter Storms to Cross US Through Christmas
As many as three storms with snow, ice, rain and thunderstorms may affect areas from the South Central states to the Northeast through the weekend and after Christmas.
Mother Nature will provide a stormy weather pattern over the next couple of weeks.
While details including timing, track and exact precipitation type for the storms have yet to be determined, the storms will bring enough precipitation to slow travel as they move along.
According to AccuWeather.com Long-Range Expert Paul Pastelok, “The storms will develop in the Southern states and then track northeastward. How far north the storms track into the cold air will determine the extent of snow.”
Read More Here: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/multiple-us-winter-storms-christmas/39058689
Maryland gas drilling propsects may improve with incoming governor
CUMBERLAND — The new administration of incoming Gov. Larry Hogan could revive the chances for drilling for natural gas in Western Maryland. That drilling should take advantage of technology developed by Alliant Techsystems Inc., said Allegany County Commissioner Bill Valentine. Valentine would like the first test well in Allegany County to use that technology, he said.
That’s at the same time that Gov. Martin O’Malley is being ripped by environmentalists for promulgating rules for hydraulic fracturing, which, when in place, could allow drilling to begin. O’Malley will leave office in mid-January. This week, Hogan said he didn’t like O’Malley issuing major regulations on gas drilling and other issues in the last few weeks of his administration.
Valentine and Del. Wendell Beitzel say O’Malley’s proposed rules are so restrictive that they would make drilling cost-prohibitive, but they think a new administration might be willing to offer safe regulations that would make it worthwhile for gas companies to consider drilling in Garrett and Allegany counties.
“It’s an issue that would have a tremendous economic impact,” Beitzel said. “As we go along technology will improve even further and risk will be reduced. There are risks in any industrial activity,” Beitzel said.
Read More Here: http://eaglefordtexas.com/news/id/142276/maryland-gas-drilling-propsects-may-improve-incoming-governor/
Fracking in W. Maryland is not a done deal
I am sending this letter out as a mother, as a small farmer, as a Garrett County property owner and tax payer, and as a member of a community that I care deeply about.
After attending the final meeting of the Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission, I left with the awful feeling that the citizens of Garrett County may end up as guinea pigs trying out the proposed “best management practices” for fracking in Maryland. We are seen as the “baseline” in a health study on a host of fracking’s known adverse effects on humans. We could perhaps have the noble opportunity of being part of a “symptom cluster.” We were warned that we should be prepared that “bad things are going to happen.”
