Balancing Growth And Nature In A Greenspring Valley Stream

How can Baltimore County, affluent and progressive among Bay watershed jurisdictions, let one of its most special environments decline?

Why must its citizens fight so hard and constantly and long to protect what the laws say we should protect?
Should governments finally admit they don’t know how to grow without taking it out of nature’s hide; haven’t found a balance?

Small streams are less than a quarter of 1 percent of Maryland’s land and water surface; yet streams invest any landscape with a personality disproportionate to their mere acreage. They are where the Bay begins, close to every resident, where so many are first ensorcelled by the greater Chesapeake aquatic.
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