The Trachtenberg Office was represented at the dedication ceremony for the new Northwood Chesapeake Bay Trail. On Saturday, June 5, 2010—National Trails Day—we joined with the Northwood Chesapeake Bay Trail project sponsors—Chesapeake Bay Trust (CBT), Northwood High School (NHS), Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC), Friends of Sligo Creek (FOSC), Neighbors of Northwest Branch (NNWB), and MD State Highway Administration (SHA), to celebrate the land restoration project completion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a 5k Bay Fun Run and Hike. Leaders from each partnering organization officially opened the new green space and the new, nature interpretive Northwood Chesapeake Bay Trail at 10:00 am.
American Hiking Society’s National Trails Day was the opportune time to celebrate the completion of the eight month project to restore fifteen acres of SHA property adjacent to Northwood High School and the Kemp Mill and Northwood Four Corners’ neighborhoods which will give these communities new green space for recreation, physical fitness, wilderness watching, and environmental education. More than fifty years ago, the state purchased this land to potentially build a road on it. A road was not built and instead it became an unofficial, community landfill. With the help of a $7,500 grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust, 272 community members, 227 of them students, volunteered 675 hours to create and design eight nature interpretive signs, build a half mile trail, remove 50 pounds of invasive plant species, grow 300 native plant seeds, plant 160 native meadow plants and nine trees, and clean-up 11,000 pounds of trash. After eight months of dedicating hundreds of hours of work by many volunteers, it was time to celebrate the community’s success in creating a new dual ecosystem park, deciduous forest and meadow. We wanted to especially recognize the vision and hard work of Jennifer Chambers for this local success story.
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