Environmental Protection and Sustainability
Forests and Trees
Programs that protect and enhance Baltimore County’s forests and trees are:
- Environmental Resource & Regulation Review and Compliance
- Review of Building Impacts within the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area
- Review of Building Impacts to Wetlands, Streams and Forests
- Determination and Compliance with Wetland, Stream and Forest Buffer Laws
- Environmental Education Programs/Green Schools
- Tree-mendous Maryland Program
- Intergovernmental programs coordination:
- Forest resource research/policy – forest sustainability
- Master Plan/CZMP coordination
- Department of Energy Grant (EECBG)
- Sustainability Network
Watershed Planning & Monitoring
- Watershed Management
- NPDES Permit Coordination
- Illicit Connections to Storm Drains
- Research Grant Coordination
- Watershed Monitoring
- TMDL Coordination
- Chesapeake Bay Program Tributary Strategy
Revised January 3, 2012
