The Friends of Patuxent and National Parks Conservation Association invite you to participate in the FOP annual membership meeting and special presentation by guest speaker Rod Simmons, noted plant ecologist and biologist who has extensively studied native plants and natural features of the inner Coastal Piedmont region of the mid-Atlantic.
The northern coastal pine barrens reach their southernmost extent in the “sand belt” of northern Prince George’s and Anne Arundel Counties, MD, and traverse the Patuxent Research Refuge (PRR) and Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC).
These unique natural communities, protected for decades as national conservation lands, are located directly in the path of the planned super conducting Maglev railway proposed between Washington and Baltimore, a project which is presently undergoing an environmental impact review by the Federal Railway Administration under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Come join the Friends for our annual membership meeting and a fascinating presentation about the unique natural resources that are located on the Patuxent Research Refuge and BARC and why they would be “irretrievably” lost if the Maglev project is approved.
The Friends of Patuxent are grateful to the National Parks Conservation Association who is serving as co-host of this presentation.
