Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:58:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joe Halloran Subject: Re: Conowingo Dam Birding MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We drove across the dam - didnt seem to be anything different about that. Joe Halloran lowkey@speakeasy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Mackiernan" To: Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Conowingo Dam Birding > Hi -- > > I assume they are still letting trucks drive across the dam? Are these > trucks being stopped and either searched or at least, drivers checked > out? If not, then the closing of the public area is a band-aid if they > really are concerned about security for the dam. > > (I ran this by a friend whose agency is incolved with homeland security > and that is what he said, btw...) > > Gail Mackiernan > Colesville, MD > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Joe Halloran wrote: > > > We were up there on Saturday and it was closed, closed. The park guard said > > 'until futher notice' and she did not sound optimistic. She said the > > birds were enjoying themselves. > > > > > > Joe Halloran > > lowkey@speakeasy.net > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Norman Saunders" > > To: > > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 3:23 AM > > Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Conowingo Dam Birding > > > > > > > Ken Kovak writes: > > > > > > > I have heard that the public bird viewing and parking areas downstream > > of > > > > the Conowingo Dam have been closed to the public. Does anyone on this > > > list > > > > know if this is true? > > > > > > Rick Blom, our man on the spot in Harford County, alerted us to this 2-3 > > > weeks ago. The closure was security-related and I imagine it will > > continue > > > for awhile. To find out for sure, closer to the time of your trip, you > > may > > > wish to contact the Philadelphia Electric Company offices and check with > > > them what the official status of the Conowingo Dam area. Sorry, I don't > > > have a phone number, long-distance information should be able to help! > > > > > > Norm Saunders > > > Colesville, Montgomery County, MD > > > marshhawk@att.net > > > > > > ======================================================================= > > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > > > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > > > ======================================================================= > > > > > > > ======================================================================= > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > > ======================================================================= > > > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================