State Agencies

tions relative to the protection and preservation
of wildlife and with the welfare and safety of the
citizenry. They apprehend persons for violations
of the fish, game, boating, and litter laws and
regulations. These Officers assist Wildlife Law
Enforcement officials in contiguous states in the
apprehension of game and fish violators, assist
State and local police in the apprehension of fel-
ons, and search for persons reported as lost or
missing. They also search for and recover drown-
ing victims, relay emergency information to hun-
ters and fishermen, render assistance to boaters,
and recover drifting unmanned boats.

Thousands of people receive firearms training
and hunter safety instruction each year.

Units manned by the Force include patrol
boats, runabouts, vehicles, and one amphibian
aircraft.

The Force inspects boats for conservation and
boating violations. It also inspects seafood pro-
cessing houses and trucks carrying seafood cargo.
It makes arrests and issues warnings for viola-
tions of boating and conservation laws. The
Force also investigates boating accidents and re-
ports them to the U.S. Coast Guard.

SCENIC AND WILD RIVERS REVIEW
BOARD

Chairperson: Vacancy, Secretary of Natural Re-
sources

Constance Lieder, Secretary of State Planning;
Wayne A. Cawley, Jr., Secretary of Agriculture

Tawes State Office Building
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-3656

The Scenic and Wild Rivers Review Board was
created by Chapter 85, Acts of 1968, to review
the inventories, studies, and recommendations of
the Department of Natural Resources. The Board
consists of the Secretary of Natural Resources,
the Secretary of State Planning, and the Secretary
of Agriculture. The Board selects its own
chairperson. By Chapter 612, Acts of 1975, the
Board adopted its present name and had its
membership altered.

The Board appoints, with the advice and con-
sent of the local governing body, a local Scenic
and Wild Rivers Advisory Board for each river
included within the scenic and wild rivers system.
Each local board consists of seven members of
whom at least two must be residents owning land
contiguous to the scenic or wild river, two must
be residents of the county where the river flows
and who do not own land contiguous to it, one
represents the local governing body, and two rep-

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resent the appropriate soil conservation district.
Each local board selects its own chairperson
(Code Natural Resources Article, sec. 8-403).

By Chapter 869, Acts of 1978, provision was
made for local advisory boards for scenic or wild
rivers that flow through more than one county.
The local advisory board helps develop and re-
view the studies and proposed management plans
prepared by the Department of Natural Re-
sources.

After completion of an approved management
plan, local jurisdictions, if they so desire, may es-
tablish local scenic river advisory boards to help
local government implement the plan (Chapter
962, Acts of 1978).

The Secretary of Natural Resources administers
the provisions of the Scenic and Wild Rivers Act.
He formulates and implements a program to car-
ry out the purposes of the Act for each designat-
ed river, including any other river designated sub-
sequently as part of the system. The Program
provides for wise management of resources on the
land and preservation of their scenic, agricultural,
and wild qualities.

The following local advisory boards have been
appointed by the Secretary:

ANACOSTIA RIVER LOCAL
ADVISORY BOARD

David Bourdan, Chairperson

MONOCACY RIVER LOCAL
ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. James Gilford, Chairperson

POCOMOKE RIVER LOCAL
ADVISORY BOARD

Edward Phillips, Chairperson

SEVERN RIVER LOCAL ADVISORY
BOARD

Clifford A. Falkenau, Chairperson

YOUGHIOGHENY RIVER LOCAL
ADVISORY BOARD

Richard C. Browning, Chairperson

TIDEWATER ADMINISTRATION

L. E. Zeni, Administrator

Tawes State Office Building
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-2926