Ch. 749

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article - Natural Resources

5-1203.

(a) In order to assure that an increasing population,
accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization,
does not occupy and modify all areas within the State, leaving no
lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural
condition, it is the policy of the General Assembly to secure for
the people of present and future generations the benefits of an
enduring resource of State wildlands. For this purpose there is
established a State wildlands preservation system composed of
areas in the State designated by the General Assembly as
"wildland areas". The wildland areas shall be administered for
the use and enjoyment of the people of Maryland in a manner that
will leave them unimpaired for the future use and enjoyment as
wildlands, to provide for their protection, preservation of their
wildland character, and for gathering and dissemination of
information regarding their use and enjoyment as wildlands. A
State land may not be designated as "wildland areas" except as
provided for in this section or by a subsequent act.

(1) (1) Under the provisions of subsection (a) of this
section, that property in Allegany County, containing
approximately [630] 2,000 acres described as follows is a Type 2
State Wildland and shall be named the Potomac Bends Wildland:

PARCEL 1:

Beginning on the shore of the Potomac River at the east
boundary of the abandoned Western Maryland Railroad bed, now
owned by the National Park Service, then following the Potomac
shore upriver and around the entire sinuous peninsula to the east
boundary of the south end of the property now owned by the
National Park Service, then following the National Park Service
boundary inland in first a northeasterly direction, then
northwest to the Western Maryland Railroad bed, and then
northeast following that boundary back to the point of beginning,
meaning to include all State-owned and only State-owned lands
within this described peninsula.

The wildland excludes the approximately 23 acres privately
owned by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

PARCEL 2:

BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE OLDTOWN ROAD
AT THE JUNCTION OF THE GREEN RIDGE HIKING TRAIL THAT LEADS FROM
OLDTOWN ROAD TO LIFT LOCK 59, AND WITH THE HIKING TRAIL IN A
SOUTHERLY DIRECTION TO THE WEST SIDE OF A TIMBER MANAGEMENT ZONE
PLANTED IN LARCH TREES TO ITS JUNCTION AGAIN WITH THE HIKING
TRAIL, THEN WITH THE HIKING TRAIL TO A POINT 1,000 FEET NORTH OF
THE C&O CANAL BED, THEN WITH A LINE RUNNING SOUTHEASTERLY KEEPING

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