Fallow farm gets face-lifts as conservation park
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. -
Undaunted hy the overcast
and drizzling skies that hung
over Gaithersburg on Oc
tober 11, about 500 spec
tators and 100 volunteer
workers turned out Saturday
to launch the Izaak Walton
League’s new conservation
park.
While bulldozers and
graders roared in the
background, an impressive
collection of county, state
and national officials
praised the League’s efforts
and spoke of the importance
of natural resource con
servation.
Keynoting the morning
program was Robert Herbst,
assistant secretary of the
"U.S. Department of the
Interior. Herbst set the tone
for following speakers when
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he congratulated the IWLA’s
Lois Green Chapter, on
behalf of President Carter
and himself, on “this gift of
land that will be held for the
youth and adults of this area
and for what you are doing to
improve it.”
Following Herbst at the
podium were Congressman
Michael Barnes; Senator
James Clark, president of
the Maryland Senate;
Charles Gilchrist, Mon
tgomery County Executive;
Royce Hanson, chairman of
the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning
Commission; John
McLaughlin, president of the
IWLA’s Maryland State
Division; Jack Lorenz,
executive director of the
national IWLA, David P.
Doss, assistant state con
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servationist for the USDA’s
Soil Conservation Service
and Gary Margheim, en
vironmental coordinator for
the SCS national office. Neal
Potter, Montgomery County
Council chairman, stopped
by later in the day.
The highlight of the
morning came when the
chapter dedicated the new
park to Malcolm E. King.
King, described by
associates as a “con man for
conservation,” was credited
with organizing the field day
and lining up over $200,000
worth of materials, equip
ment and labor in con
tributions.
In fact, it was King who
persuaded the late Lois
Green to donate the 55 acres
of farm and forestland to the
IWLA’s Sligo Chapter and an
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adjacept 220 acres to the
county’s park and planning
commission. Saturday’s
events in the transformation
of the fallow land into a
conservation park that will
be open to civic groups and
schools for conservation
activities and nature study.
The focus of the field day
was the completion of a soil,
water and wildlife con
servation plan. Designed by
SCS in cooperation with the
Montgomery Soil Con
servation District, the
purpose of the conservation
measures was to improve
the resources of the im
mediate area and unprove
water quality downstream.
While onlookers strolled
the grounds, four bulldozers,
provided by Worthy
Brothers and F.E. Gregory
Box 121, RDI
Myerstown, PA
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and Sons, began carving a 1-
acre pond. Adult volunteers
laid sod donated by Paul
Pearson and helped Ernie
Musser and Sons landscape
the lawn around the chapter
house.
Nearby a well drilling ng
was demonstrated by
Easterday Well Drillers and
the Maryland and Delaware
Drillers Association.
Over 7,000 wildlife shrubs
and pine trees, provided by
the Maryland Wildlife Ad
ministration, _ were planted
by 53 members of the
Metropolitan Police Boys’
Club and other volunteers.
A.B. Viers and Rockville
Crushed Stone contributed
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several years ago may not
be enough for a modem
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winter begins. Inspect the
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primary water flow.
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over 40 truckloads of gravel
used on the new access road.
There were other ac
tivities as well, including
conservation exhibits, solar
panels, nature trails, and a
gasohol still managed by
Charles Savage and Senator
Clark.
It was Clark who best
summed up the spirit of the
day,
Remarking to another
worker, Clark said “After
the kids left, I picked up one
of the planting bars and
started planting some of
those trees. Before I knew it,
there were a dozen other
people doing the same thing.
That shows how contagious
conservation is.”
winter
necessary, build a head wall
or lay a drain tile to in
tercept seepage occurring in
the wet area. Construct a
good tight concrete or
masonry box to provide the
storage necessary to meet
the peak demand.
Even though a steady flow
may be only a few gallons
per hour, if it is intercepted
and stored, the flow during
the 24-hour period may
provide enough water to
satisfy the daily
requirement.
Anyone who contemplates
developing a spring for a
new source of water should
realize that most springs are
recharged with surface
water percolating through
shallow layers of soil and
rock and in many instances
the tfrater will be polluted
and not safe to drink.
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