Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:48:36 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: Fw: Chesapeake Bay MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to Bob Augustine for bringing this interesting notion to my attention: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Augustine" To: Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: Chesapeake Bay > Chesapeake Bay Studied for New National Park > > ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, September 12, 2002 (ENS) - The National Park Service (NPS) has been asked by > Congress to consider whether parts of the Chesapeake Bay should be added to the national park > system. > The special resource study will explore if and how the NPS could and should further efforts to > celebrate and conserve the Chesapeake. The study will examine whether having additional Chesapeake > Bay resources within the national park system would make sense and would advance partnership efforts > to conserve the Bay. > > The NPS will try to define whether there are concepts or ways that areas of the Bay might fit within > the National Park System. Concepts might match existing types of park system units or may be > something new and appropriate to the unique resources of the Chesapeake Bay. Or the study may find > that it would be inappropriate to create a new unit focused on the Bay. > > A final study report will be presented to the NPS in mid-2003, including recommendations regarding > potential new park units, for submission to Congress. If creating a unit of the National Park System > focused on representative areas of Chesapeake Bay is recommended, moving forward would require > legislation passed by Congress and signed by the President. > > The study opens with a series of public workshops around the Bay region in September 2002. The > workshops - open to all who are interested - will include an overview of initial study concepts, > followed by discussion groups with attendees to help develop and refine these or other concepts. > > Public workshops will be held from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the following locations: > > > September 16, Main Street Library, Newport News, Virginia > September 17, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland > September 24, Cecil Community College Conference Center, North East, Maryland > September 26, Maryland Hall for the Performing Arts, Annapolis, Maryland > Suggestions, comments and ideas collected at the public workshops and via the study web site at: > http://www.chesapeakestudy.org, will help refine or revise concepts for a draft report. The draft > will be presented for discussion and feedback at a second set of public workshops in early 2003. > > > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================