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Board mulls gas drilling restrictions near Deep Creek Lake
OAKLAND, Md. — The Garrett County Commissioners are considering a Deep Creek Lake watershed management plan that would restrict drilling for natural gas in the resort area.
What do you think?
The plan is up for discussion at Monday’s board meeting.
What do you think?
The plan was drafted in 2014. It would prohibit wellheads on 41,000 acres around the lake.
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Some of that acreage overlies part of the gas-rich Marcellus shale rock formation. State environmental regulators are developing rules for allowing companies to drill for gas as early as 2017 using the technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Read more at http://www.wral.com/board-mulls-gas-drilling-restrictions-near-deep-creek-lake/15212791/#gJYmF6bm8Ylh5fg4.99
Happy New Year!!
Snowless Ski Resorts Offer Hiking, Mini Golf — Or Pleas For Donations
The holidays are usually a busy time on the slopes, but unseasonably warm weather this month is wreaking havoc on ski resorts — and skiers’ plans — in the Midwest and Northeast.
Ski resorts in New York and Pennsylvania are assuring would-be visitors that they’re ready to make snow “in a moment’s notice” as soon as cold weather returns, reports AccuWeather. But there’s no getting around that at the moment, there’s simply no snow to be had.
The winter-that-just-wouldn’t-start could have a dire economic impact on such resorts. The director of one tells AccuWeather that Christmas visitors usually account for 20 percent of the season’s total business.
Resorts are having to think beyond the slopes. At least one has actually brought back its summer activities — normally unavailable at this time of year — for the Christmas season, The Toronto Star reported last week. The Blue Mountain Resort in Ontario, Canada, made the call after it was wholly snowless just a week before Christmas.
Read More Here: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/23/460865274/snowless-ski-resorts-offer-hiking-mini-golf-or-pleas-for-donations
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Wishing everyone a very safe and Merry Christmas!!
SANTA!
Santa Claus will be @ the Taylor-Made Office tomorrow from 10 am – 12 Noon! Please join us for Christmas stories, hot cocoa, cookies & of course, pictures with Santa!
Happy 1st Day of WINTER!!!
Wisp had the snow guns running this weekend!!
Wandering Sandhill Crane Becomes Maryland Zoo’s Newest Addition
BALTIMORE (WJZ)–In Japanese culture, cranes are good luck.
Here in Baltimore, the Maryland Zoo just got some good luck in a new
addition.
Gigi Barnett explains why his name is Garrett.
You could say the new Sandhill Crane at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is a little out of his element.
Taylor Zoghby, animal keeper at the zoo says, “they’re typically around Tennessee, West Virginia and west of there, through North America.”
But based on his appetite, he seems right at home.
Garrett is the zoo’s newest addition.
Read More Here: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/12/18/wandering-sandhill-crane-becomes-maryland-zoos-newest-addition/
Larry Walsh: Temperatures this weekend will allow for snowmaking
By Larry Walsh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Local and regional resorts are offering a variety of off-snow activities while they wait for below-freezing temperatures to make snow.
Depending on their locations, those temperatures might have arrived Friday night and they might return again tonight.
“The forecast for this weekend [Dec. 18-19] is absolutely gorgeous” said Shawn Cassell, spokesman for Snowshoe Mountain Resort in east-central West Virginia. “Those lows in the teens will make for some spectacular snowmaking conditions.”
Read More Here: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/ski/2015/12/19/Temperatures-this-weekend-will-allow-for-snowmaking/stories/201512190052
SNOW DAY!!
