The Northeast Regional Center for Rural
Development Land Use Toolbox
Maryland - You and Your Community:
What You Can Do links
University
of Maryland
Home
and Garden Information Center - Bay Issues,
http://www.agnr.umd.edu/users/hgic/bay/bay.html
Description:
The Home and Garden Information Center is assisting the Chesapeake Bay
Program's Tributary Strategies by showing how simple actions in your home
and yard can prevent excess nutrients and other pollutants from reaching
the bay.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
University
of Maryland
Rural
Development Center,
http://skipjack.net/le_shore/rural/
Description:
The Rural Development Center's mission is to strengthen and diversify
the rural economy of Maryland's Eastern Shore. We strive to increase incomes,
employment and the local tax base by providing technical assistance to
counties, communities, and businesses. The RDC collaborates with local
higher education institutions, governments and the private sector to accomplish
this mission.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Other
Maryland Links
1000
Friends of Maryland
1000
Friends of Maryland,
http://www.friendsofmd.org/friends2.html
Description: Formed in 1996, 1000 Friends of Maryland is a coalition of business and development companies, architectural and historical preservation organizations, community and environmental groups. Our mission is twofold: to preserve what is best about Maryland and to encourage sensible growth.
Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Alliance
for the Chesapeake Bay
Alliance
for the Chesapeake Bay,
http://www.acb-online.org/
Description: The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is a regional nonprofit organization that builds and fosters partnerships to protect and to restore the Bay and its rivers. The Alliance does not lobby or litigate. Instead, we do the slow, hard work of bridging dialogue between groups that don't see eye-to-eye, forming strategies for joint solutions, and building the capacity of communities for local-level action.
Topics: Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland, Pennsylvania
Department
of Agriculture
Conservation,
Harmony With the Land,
http://www.mda.state.md.us/mdacon/index.htm
Description:
Learn how Maryland farmers are working to control soil erosion, discover
the many ways you can practice conservation without ever leaving your
home and find out what's being done on the farm to protect water quality
in our streams, rivers and Chesapeake Bay.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of the Environment
Water
Conservation Program,
http://www.mde.state.md.us/Programs/WaterPrograms/Water_Conservation/index.asp
Description: Since 1999, MDE has put several programs into effect aimed at reducing water consumption statewide. MDE is working to help state facilities meet water conservation goals that were established under Executive Order 01.01.2001.03, encouraging water utilities to take steps to reduce water consumption, and developing and implementing an outreach campaign to educate Maryland citizens about the importance of water conservation.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Natural Resources
Bays
and Streams Education,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/education/programs.html
Description: You may not be aware of it, but all of our activities on land (like driving, building and farming) impact the Chesapeake Bay. Our individual contributions may seem small, but by making small changes in our daily habits together with 4.6 million other Marylanders all living in the Bay watershed, we can clean up the Bay.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Natural Resources
MERLIN
Online,
http://www.mdmerlin.net/
Description: MERLIN Online is an electronic atlas that allows a user to produce a custom "map" for any location in Maryland, including their choice of base map and theme data layers. It also allows the user to query the system to obtain information provided about specific locations.
Topics: Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Maryland
Municipal League
Maryland
Municipal League,
http://www.mdmunicipal.org/mmlhome/index.cfm
Description: A voluntary, nonprofit, nonpartisan association controlled and maintained by city and town governments, MML works to strengthen the role and capacity of municipal government through research, legislation, technical assistance, training and the dissemination of information for its members.
Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Worcester
County
Landowner's
Guide to Protecting Worcester's Sensitive Areas,
http://www.co.worcester.md.us/loguide.htm
Description:
The natural resources of Worcester County enhance our quality of life,
providing economic, public health and safety, aesthetic and other benefits
to the individual landowner and to us all. Sensitive areas are places
or elements in the landscape that have ecological, economic and/or public
health values, and should receive some degree of management and protection.
Topics: Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do
Jurisdiction: Maryland
NERCRD ©2004
The Toolbox is a joint effort of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD)
and Penn State Cooperative Extension in Adams County.
This page was last updated on July 13, 2005.
For questions, suggestions or to report broken links, please contact NERCRD: nercrd@psu.edu.