James B. Coulter, Secretary of Natural Resources

Louis N. Phipps, Jr., Deputy Secretary

Fred T. Eskew, Assistant Secretary/or Capital Programs

Henry Silbermann, Assistant Secretary/or Environmental Management

Spencer P. Ellis, Assistant Secretary/or Resources Management

Tawes State Office Building
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-2230

The Department of Natural Resources was created in 1969 by Chapter 154, Acts of 1969, which
consolidated all conservation and natural resources into one department.

The Department of Natural Resources consists of the following agencies: Capital Programs Adminis-
tration, Fisheries Administration, Wildlife Administration, Natural Resources Police Force, Forest and
Park Services, Water Resources Administration, Maryland Environmental Service, Energy Administra-
tion, Tidewater Administration, Maryland Geological Survey, Scenic and Wild Rivers Review Board,
and Maryland Environmental Trust. The Department also includes the Upper Potomac River Commis-
sion, Land Reclamation Committee, Program Open Space Committee, and other advisory bodies. The
Department is responsible for the Maryland membership units of the Interstate Commission on the Po-
tomac River Basin, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commis-
sion, Potomac River Fisheries Commission, Interstate Oil Compact Commission, Interstate Mining
Commission, Potomac River Basin Advisory Committee, Ohio River Basin Commission, Coastal States
Organization, the Southern States Energy Board, and for such other departments, agencies, advisory
commissions, boards, committees, councils, or units as may hereafter by law be declared to be part of
the Department of Natural Resources (Code Natural Resources Article, secs. 1-101 through 1-104).