If you missed the members' meeting, you missed State Senator James Brochin's comments 

about land preservation issues across the state.  You didn't hear Vanessa Beauchamp, 

Associate Professor and plant ecologist at Towson University,  talk about riparian buffers 

and the threat that wavyleaf basketgrass poses to our area.  You missed John Canoles, 

principal at Eco-Science Professionals, Inc.,, who spoke about the importance of old fields 

as wildlife habitat.  And you didn't see H. Turney McKnight accept our Sergeant Murphy

 Award for land preservation.

     

  Vanessa Beauchamp and John Canoles           H. Turney McKnight with Henry Pitts, 

                                                                                                 president of The Manor Conservancy

Click here for a PDF of Vanessa's presentation, here for information on wavyleaf basketgrass, 

and here for a synopsis of John's talk about old fields.  Thanks to Senator Brochin, Vanessa, and 

John for helping to make this one of the best meetings ever!