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Partnership turns Maryland environmental disaster into sanctuary – The Southern Maryland Chronicle
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BALTIMORE — Fourteen years in the past, Masonville Cove, a small stretch of woods and water alongside the Patapsco River, simply north of Interstate 895 and west of a sprawling industrial advanced, held 61,000 tons of trash. Right this moment it’s a sanctuary.
With deer searching and meandering alongside the paths within the early morning, woodchucks coming out of their dens to forage within the late afternoon and geese swimming in what as soon as was a notoriously foul, polluted inlet, the world is a hit story.
“Masonville Cove is considered one of Maryland’s nice environmental restoration tasks,” stated William P. Doyle, govt director of the Maryland Port Administration, in an announcement. “The Maryland Port Administration led a large cleanup effort of Masonville Cove years in the past and labored carefully with neighboring communities and our companions to redevelop the positioning into all that it affords at this time,”
Two of the extra seen examples of the cove’s success are the pair of bald eagles nesting in its timber and the customized trash wheel that catches trash earlier than it will get to the river.
Captain Trash Wheel, a big trash-collecting mechanism with googly eyes and photo voltaic panels that give it the looks of a hermit crab, was put in in 2018. It has since grow to be the cove’s pseudo mascot. It even has its personal devoted social media presence, with almost 1,900 Instagram followers and 1,600 followers on Twitter.
The mechanism collects heaps of trash every year from storm drain runoff that empties into the cove from metropolis streets. Since its set up in 2018, the wheel has eliminated virtually 30 tons of trash, in line with knowledge from the Maryland Environmental Service.
Then there’s the eagles.
The cove is residence to the primary pair of nesting bald eagles to return to Baltimore metropolis, in line with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“I feel it’s particular, as a result of they have been the primary documented pair returning again to Baltimore, and I feel that’s an indication of the actions we’ve been taking to guard eagles and do a greater job of caring for our waterways,” stated Ela-Sita Carpenter, an city wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Resulting from pesticides, capturing, trapping and lack of habitat, bald eagles turned uncommon within the decrease 48 states in the course of the early twentieth Century. They’d declined to solely 417 breeding pairs within the Nineteen Sixties and have become one of many first animals protected underneath the Endangered Species Act in 1973.
The birds rebounded dramatically and have been faraway from the endangered species checklist in 2007. Based on a report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Companies final yr, there have been 71,400 nesting pairs within the U.S.
In 2021, the Baltimore pair nested within the cove for the third yr in a row after efficiently elevating 4 eaglets over the earlier two years.
This yr the bald eagles returned to the cove however haven’t nested, federal wildlife officers stated. They stated researchers are not sure why.
In 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated Masonville Cove because the nation’s first City Wildlife Refuge Partnership. Managed by the Maryland Port Authority, the refuge works with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Maryland Environmental Service, the Residing School rooms Basis and the Nationwide Aquarium.
To Genevieve LaRouche, Chesapeake Bay Area Workplace Supervisor with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the refuge is a monument to the teams who got here collectively to create it.
“I feel it tells a very good story about what occurs whenever you let the group have an area like this,” LaRouche stated. “I feel that’s actually necessary to folks and their psychological well being and bodily well being.”
In 2008, Masonville Cove was extra a headache than a mode of well being care.
Again then, it was the Masonville dumping floor, holding over a century of trash that dated way back to the Nice Baltimore Hearth of 1904, in line with the Maryland Port Authority.
The trash was eliminated, and in 2009, the Masonville Cove Schooling Heart opened. In 2012, trails within the cove have been opened to the general public for the primary time.
Now, Masonville is residence to an array of wildlife.
Carpenter stated that since she started monitoring animals within the cove in early 2020, a pair of coyotes has been seen roaming the woods, together with deer, raccoons, foxes, opossums and groundhogs.
“Given Masonville’s historical past, it was a dumping website and never that a lot wildlife was actually capable of safely use it,” she stated, “and now we’ve got bald eagles and coyotes utilizing this space.
“And I feel that’s actually cool.”
This text was oringally printed on BayJournal.com.
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Maryland Weather: Severe Storms Moving in From West
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BALTIMORE – Severe storms have been plaguing western Maryland this afternoon. They are on the move east and will push into Carroll County near the 6pm hour. These storms have a history of producing winds capable of downing trees. We are also seeing heavy rain and lightning.
Most of the activity will push north and south of the forecast area surrounding Baltimore with the marine layer or stable air mass keeping the severe weather west of the mountain regions.
The warm front associated with the severe weather is bring warm, humid air in overnight. Expect overnight lows in the low 70s with scattered showers and isolated severe storms.
A secondary cold front will bring another chance for an isolated strong storms on Sunday. The day won’t be a washout, there is the possibility of active weather in the afternoon and evening.
The front will bring bright sunny skies for Monday with low humidity. Perfect weather for the afternoon barbecue or last summer activity. Kids getting back to school this week should expect refreshing temperatures… possibly even a little chilly with overnight lows in the 50s.
High pressure will control our weather for the middle of the week. Expect sunny skies and low humidity through Friday. Overnight lows Tuesday and Wednesday will be in the mid 50s, with afternoon highs in the upper 70s. The chance of showers returns late Friday.
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How to watch Maryland football vs. UConn
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Maryland football is back and kicks off its season at home against UConn on Saturday.
The Terps will take on the Huskies for first time since 2013, when Maryland won, 32-21. The Terps are coming off an 8-5 season, in which they won their third straight bowl game, while UConn is coming off a disappointing 3-9 season and looking to play spoiler on the road.
With a victory, Maryland will move its week one winning streak to five games.
The numbers
Maryland: 0-0
UConn: 0-0
All-time series: Maryland leads, 2-1
DraftKings Sportsbook line: Maryland -19.5, O/U 44.5
How to watch and listen
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 12 p.m. ET
Where: SECU Stadium, College Park, Maryland
TV: Fox Sports 1 — Connor Onion (play-by-play), Mark Helfrich (analyst)
Radio: 105.7 FM (Balt) / 980 AM (DC) – Johnny Holliday (play-by-play), Steve Suter (analyst), LaMont Jordan (sideline)
Streaming: Fox Sports
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Maryland Supreme Court reinstates Adnan Syed murder conviction, orders new hearing
BALTIMORE— Maryland’s Supreme Court has upheld an appellate court’s decision to reinstate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained national attention in 2014 when it was featured on the first season of the “Serial” podcast.
The ruling says the case should be sent back to a lower court for a new hearing on whether it should be thrown out entirely. The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling that had cleared Syed’s name two years ago.
Syed had served more than 20 years for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
He was freed from prison in September 2022 after Baltimore prosecutors found flaws in the evidence presented at trial and a judge agreed to vacate his conviction.
However, Lee’s relatives appealed the decision, contending they didn’t receive sufficient notice to attend the hearing that set Syed free. In March 2023, the Maryland Appellate Court agreed and reinstated Syed’s conviction and ordered a redo of the hearing.
Syed appealed that ruling, bringing the matter to the Maryland Supreme Court. Friday’s ruling comes 11 months after arguments were made.
Justices found the circuit court violated the rights of Young Lee, Hae Min Lee’s brother.
“In an effort to remedy what they perceived to be an injustice to Mr. Syed, the prosecutor and the Circuit Court worked an injustice against Mr. Lee,” the court said.
Syed will remain free until the next hearing which has not been scheduled. The Supreme Court ordered the Lee family must have sufficient notice of the new hearing and a new judge must preside.
“If there’s actually evidence presented that shows that Adnan Syed should not have been convicted, we would be the first ones to congratulate Adnan Syed and argue he should be a free man,” said David Sanford, the attorney for the Lee family. “That hasn’t happened yet.”
In their dissenting opinions, several justices wrote when the case was vacated, any appeal by Young Lee should’ve been rendered moot. Those justices also argued there aren’t any specific victims’ rights that would require Young Lee be allowed to be present at that 2022 hearing.
Syed’s lawyer Erica Suter said that while they disagree with the ruling, the Lee family’s pain in this isn’t lost on them.
“Wrongful convictions devastate the wrongly accused, their family and the family of the victim,” Suter said. “Reinstating Adnan’s wrongful conviction does not provide justice or closure.”
Rabia Chaudry, Syed’s friend and advocate, went on Instagram Live to affirm that she will do what she can to keep Syed a free man.
“I will never not fight for his freedom and I know there are others, also, in his life who will never not fight for his freedom,” Chaudry said.
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