{"id":19356,"date":"2017-12-22T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=19356"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:28:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:28:05","slug":"owings-mills-property-named-baltimore-county-2017-tree-farm-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/12\/22\/owings-mills-property-named-baltimore-county-2017-tree-farm-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Owings Mills Property Named Baltimore County Tree Farm of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Honors Showalter Tree Farm&#8217;s 40 Years of Quality Forest Management<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4732\/39175290862_86f7637122_b_d.jpg\" alt=\"Forester Rob Prenger with Sally Marker-Showalter of Showalter Tree Farm\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a> Forester Rob Prenger recently presented Sally Marker-Showalter of Showalter Tree Farm in Owings Mills with the 2017 Baltimore County <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/programapps\/tfarm.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tree Farm<\/a> of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>The Showalter family won this year&#8217;s county award in recognition of the dedication and commitment to timber production, wildlife habitat, soil conservation, water quality, and aesthetics they&#8217;ve demonstrated on their tree farm for close to 40 years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> The Showalter Tree Farm has been working in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Forest Service<\/a> on sound management practices since 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The American Forest Foundation&#8217;s Tree Farm Program promotes the health and sustainability of family-owned forested lands across the country. Awards are given for county, state and national Tree Farm every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honors Showalter Tree Farm&#8217;s 40 Years of Quality Forest Management Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forester Rob Prenger recently presented Sally Marker-Showalter of Showalter Tree Farm in Owings Mills with the 2017 Baltimore County Tree Farm of the Year Award. The Showalter family won this year&#8217;s county award in recognition of the dedication and commitment<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/12\/22\/owings-mills-property-named-baltimore-county-2017-tree-farm-of-the-year\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965,23],"tags":[2911],"class_list":["post-19356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","category-land","tag-baltimore-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19373,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions\/19373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}