BOYDS, MARYLAND - Friends of Ten Mile Creek & Little Seneca Reservoir (FoTMC) has filed a petition seeking legal review of a recent Montgomery County Planning Board decision approving the site plan for a residential development in the Ten Mile Creek watershed in Clarksburg.
Read MoreConservation Montgomery will honor Claire Iseli at their annual meeting with the Joe Howard Environmental Award and will feature Montgomery Countryside Alliance Executive Director Caroline Taylor as the guest speaker. Claire Iseli is a special assistant and environmental adviser to County Executive Marc Elrich, who has supported his long time efforts to protect Ten Mile Creek. Below is more information from the Conservation Montgomery announcement. You can register to attend here.
Read MoreBeginning in 2019, John Parrish began an inventory of the flora of public lands in the Ten Mile Creek watershed. Together, these properties encompass about 600 acres. This represents one-fifth of the watershed acreage north of West Old Baltimore Road.
So far, John’s surveys have documented over 450 native plant species.
Read MorePlease save the date of October 24th and let us know if you would be willing and interested in attending our normally "annual" outdoor/in person potluck, and fundraiser, at the Cinque Farm - on this google form, no later than October 3rd, so we can plan accordingly. In light of the still circulating Covid-19 variants, and depending on your responses, it could instead be a webinar. But either way, you won't want to miss it!
Read MoreWe have just learned that the Planning Board without adequate notice has put our Petition on its Agenda for Thursday. We urgently need your emails to the Planning Board before this Thursday, January 28th.
Read MoreThe Planning Board hearing for the proposed Pulte Development is now scheduled for December 3, 2020. This hearing will determine the development plans that Pulte has put forward. Your letters and support for the preservation of the Ten Mile Creek Watershed are truly needed if we have any chance of reducing this poorly conceived development.
Read MoreWe advise that we act guided by careful planning that integrates the role advancing technology with the stewardship of our invaluable natural systems, our productive lands. We trust that the health, the resilience of our local food/fiber system will feature in this plan now being developed and nearing completion by a range of knowledgeable stakeholders and paid contractor.
Read MoreSILVER SPRING, MARYLAND - Friends of Ten Mile Creek will testify before the Montgomery County Planning Board on Thursday June 13, in support of proposed updates to the Guidelines for Environmental Management of Development in Montgomery County.
Read MoreOn December 17, 2014, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) held a public meeting announcing a set of potential options for providing sewer service to the limited amount of development allowed in the Ten Mile Creek watershed.
Read MoreIn November 2014, Pulte Homes, one of the primary developers in the Ten Mile Creek watershed, filed a lawsuit against Montgomery County and the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission over the Ten Mile Creek Limited Master Plan Amendment alleging that the County Council and planners illegally limited construction on its property. Read more in this Washington Post article.
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