Herring Run Watershed Association
$25,000 / 2004 / Environment
Toward staffing costs to increase local efforts to restore the Herring Run Watershed. The association has played a major role in environmental monitoring of illegal industrial dumps and sewage pipe leakages, and has advocated for stream cleanups, tree plantings, installations of rain gardens, and other bio-retention modifications in homes and schoolyards.
Maryland Environmental Service
$25,000 / 2004 / Environment
For the production, installation, and monitoring of Reef Balls (artificial reefs) as part of the Department of Natural Resources’ Artificial Reef Project. The program will help restore degraded or damaged natural reefs that are home to oysters and fish in the Chesapeake Bay.
1000 Friends of Maryland
$5,000 / 2003 / Environment
For the production of a report, “Greening the Budget: 11 Ideas for Protecting the Environment and Easing Maryland’s Fiscal Crisis, 2004.” The report, part of a national effort aimed at fighting threatened budget cuts in environmental programs in cities and states, suggests strategies to close loopholes in the tax code, eliminate subsidies for pollution and deter other cuts of environmentally damaging projects.
Audubon Maryland-DC
$30,000 / 2003 / Environment
The funding makes it possible for the Audubon Center in Patterson Park to continue serving as a conservation resource, providing a broad range of educational programs for all ages, adult workshops and family events
Center for Watershed Protection
$50,000 / 2003 / Environment
For continued support of the Builders of the Bay program, designed to convene a series of county roundtable task forces. These roundtables investigate existing building codes and ordinances in their respective counties and make recommendations to their planning commissions, to ensure that each county’s building codes are environmentally sensitive and economically feasible.