Department of Natural Resources
www.dnr.maryland.gov
Healthy natural and living resources are essential to a Smart, Green & Growing Maryland, providing environmental benefits, supporting significant economies and offering unlimited opportunities for education and recreation. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has programs and services through which every citizen, business and local government can become engaged in helping more conservatively use and vigorously protect our finite resources to ensure a sustainable future for future generations.
Preserving Maryland’s Landscape…
Through the cutting edge GIS technology of GreenPrint, every Marylander can now track land conservation progress across the state and identify ecologically significant lands within their own communities.
Marylanders Plant Trees is challenging citizens to plant 50,000 trees by 2010, as part of a statewide effort to plant one million new trees by 2011.
Maryland’s Program Open Space continues to be a national leader in permanently protecting natural resource lands and funding recreational facilities in communities across the State.
Through the Rural Legacy Program, the State is working with local governments and land trusts to protect large, connected tracts of the sensitive rural landscape – and their significant economic and environmental benefits – from sprawl development.
The Maryland Environmental Trust is helping citizens preserve private farms, forests and open space through conservation easements.
Restoring the Chesapeake Bay…
Through Marylanders Grow Oysters, waterfront property owners are growing-out oysters that will eventually become part of local oyster reefs.
BayStat is helping state agencies assess, coordinate and target Maryland’s Bay restoration programs, and informing citizens on progress.
The Maryland Clean Marinas Initiative is helping businesses and citizens adopt voluntary pollution prevention practices, as an alternative to additional regulations on the marina industry
Maryland Tributary Team volunteers are addressing pollution at the local level in 10 major tributary basins of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Fostering Tomorrow’s Stewards…
The Civic Justice Corps is providing conservation service opportunities for Baltimore City youth in Maryland State Parks.
TEAM DNR citizen volunteers are educating elementary and middle school students on the Chesapeake Bay and other natural resource issues.
