A win for the trees of Swallow Falls
I did not think this would happen: The Appellate Court of Maryland has stood up for the mighty, old hemlocks and pines of Swallow Falls State Park in Western Maryland. Readers of my Sun column in 2024 and this blog in 2025 might recall the fight to save the…
See the symbolism here? Like Trump and the striving fascists around him, algae suffocates; it blocks the light, it sucks up all the oxygen. It goops up ecosystems. It's a menace to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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"My family found a home here. In all the world, we came to Baltimore. We were damn lucky.”
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"The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."
-- Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
"...what the whole world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won.” -- Hunter Thompson, from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Good, Swallow Falls is a special place, but I'd really like to have more faith in the DNR to protect MD's natural resources