Board also approves Program Open Space – Stateside funds for protection of forested properties
Maryland 2026 – The Board of Public Works today approved more than $1.8 million in grants from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to local governments for park lights, trail, and land conservation in Allegany, Baltimore, Calvert, Cecil, Dorchester, Montgomery, Queen Anne’s, and Washington counties.
More than $1.35 million in Program Open Space – Local funding was approved for nine projects, including new field lighting at the Cresaptown Sports Complex in Allegany County, LED lighting conversion at Reisterstown Regional Park in Baltimore County, and creation of a new 2-mile trail for hiking and biking within Rock Creek Regional Park and North Branch Stream Valley Park in Montgomery County.
In land conservation, $271,000 of Rural Legacy program funding was approved to acquire a permanent conservation easement in the Fair Hill Rural Legacy Area of Cecil County. The Cecil Land Trust will preserve a 65-acre farm and its 1,200 feet of forested stream buffers along a tributary to Little North East Creek…