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CommunityRural Legacy grants renewed by DNR
Friday, June 6, 2008
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Land preservation in Calvert County got a boost Tuesday, June 3, when the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners accepted state grants to continue preservation efforts inside the county’s two ‘‘Rural Legacy Areas” in northern and central Calvert for fiscal year 2008.
The Rural Legacy Program operated by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources partners with the county ‘‘to preserve some of the state’s best remaining landscapes and natural areas through the purchase of land or conservation easements” within these designated areas, according to commissioners’ documents.
Despite a tight budget, the state government pleasantly surprised the county by agreeing to fund both the North Calvert and Calvert Creeks rural legacy areas. North Calvert, which reaches from just north of Dunkirk to South to south of Lower Marlboro, received a grant of $833,600; Calvert Creeks, which extends in an irregular arc from the beaches near Prince Frederick to south of St. Leonard Creek, was awarded $528,400 plus a reallocation of $221,600, commissioners’ documents said.
‘‘This is a major, major plus for Calvert County,” commissioners’ President Wilson Parran (D) said after the unanimous vote to accept the grant. Parran could not sign the letters to accept the grants because of a conflict of interest — he is a DNR executive — but Vice President Jerry Clark (R) will sign the letters and return them by June 20.
