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Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area. Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area is a nature reserve near Owings Mills in western Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S. [1] The site is designated both as a Maryland Wildland (1,526 acres) and as a Natural Environment Area (1,900 acres) and is part of the Maryland Wildlands Preservation System.
The State of Maryland contains 145,394 acres (588.39 km 2) of designated state forest which are managed by the Maryland Forest Service. [ 1 ] The following is a list of Maryland state forests.
South Mountain is the northern extension of the Blue Ridge Mountain range into Maryland and Pennsylvania.From the Potomac River near Knoxville, Maryland in the south to Dillsburg, Pennsylvania in York County, Pennsylvania in the north, the 70-mile-long (110 km) range separates the Hagerstown and Cumberland valleys from the Piedmont regions of the two states.
City park with arboretum and gardens, features the Cylburn Nature Museum with Maryland natural history exhibits Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center: Swanton: Garrett: Western: Operated by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources in the state park Eden Mill Nature Center: Pylesville: Harford: Central
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Battle Creek Cypress Swamp: April 1965: Prince Frederick: Calvert: private (The Nature Conservancy) One of the northernmost sites of naturally occurring bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in North America, and the only large stand of the trees on the western shore of Maryland.
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Green Ridge State Forest is a state forest in Western Maryland. Approximately 46,000 acres (186 km 2) in size, it is situated along Green Ridge and Town Hill in eastern Allegany County. Camping, hiking, biking, fishing, and boating are all permitted in Green Ridge State Forest. Hunting is also permitted in the forest, and is the most common use.
The woods have been there since at least the 1700s as they featured on Jefferys Map of Buckinghamshire which was dated 1766–68. [6] In the 1950s the woodland was bought by the London County Council as part of the Britwell development. [6] In 1996 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by Slough Borough Council. [1]