10,580 Pounds of Trash

On Sunday, November 22nd, close to 60 volunteers worked for three hours on a beautiful afternoon to remove 10,580 pounds of trash, such as lawn mowers, bikes, sinks, broken car windshields, construction debris, jugs of used automotive oil, and much more, on a valuable wooded corridor for animals and a deciduous ecosystem buffer zone for Sligo Creek and Northwest Branch (both in the Chesapeake Bay watershed). Seventy-five percent of the volunteers were students from Northwood High School and two feeder middle schools.

The Northwood Chesapeake Bay Trail project has taken a respite for the holidays and will begin getting into the meat and bones of it at the end of January. Two student interns at Northwood will implement the core mission of the project, to restore the land by building a trail and native meadow and conducting outreach to their peers and the neighboring communities about improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay. Stay tuned!