{"id":44620,"date":"2025-05-12T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=44620"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:37","slug":"public-comment-sought-for-2026-maryland-state-forest-work-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/05\/12\/public-comment-sought-for-2026-maryland-state-forest-work-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Comment Sought for 2026 Maryland State Forest Work Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4647\/25273291048_1b7bf87b27.jpg\" alt=\"Stream in a forest\" width=\"356\" height=\"267\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Savage River State Forest. Maryland DNR photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is now seeking public comment on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/workplans.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">proposed fiscal year 2026 annual work plans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the following state forests: Chesapeake\/Pocomoke, Green Ridge, Potomac-Garrett, and Savage River. The comment period runs May 6 through June 6, 2025.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annual work plans help the department identify priorities within the scope of the forests\u2019 long-range management. They address composition, establishment, growth, health, and quality along with construction and maintenance projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The public comment period is the final part of a three-step process. The first step includes an internal review by natural resource professionals with expertise in wildlife and fishery habitats, recreation, forest management, water quality, and ecologically significant species. The second includes a review by a local citizens advisory committee. Following the conclusion of the public comment period, each forest manager will review, revise and finalize their specific plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The proposed plans for each forest can be found on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/workplans.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Forest Service website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/240864897232062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">comments can be submitted through an online form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is now seeking public comment on the proposed fiscal year 2026 annual work plans for the following state forests: Chesapeake\/Pocomoke, Green Ridge, Potomac-Garrett, and Savage River. The comment period runs May 6 through June 6, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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],"tags":[5589,3248,4994,4945,5355,3510],"class_list":["post-44620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-chesapeake-potomac-state-forest","tag-green-ridge-state-forest","tag-maryland-forest-service","tag-potomac-garrett-state-forest","tag-public-comment","tag-savage-river-state-forest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44620","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44622,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44620\/revisions\/44622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}