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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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J.R. 18
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WHEREAS, Although approximately 35% of Maryland's total land area is
farmland, Maryland's agricultural land is still rapidly disappearing, with an
estimated 18,000 acres of farmland annually being converted to urban, commercial, or
other nonagricultural use; and
WHEREAS, Global economic trends, continuing development pressures, the
encroachment of strip and scattered development in rural areas and nearby cities,
and growing urbanization, threaten the destruction of Maryland's rural environment
and the disappearance of its valuable agricultural land for agricultural purposes; and
WHEREAS, Maryland should not become one large urban development without
any balanced agricultural economy; and
WHEREAS, It is generally essential to Maryland's economic and environmental
stability and growth, and particularly to maintain an agricultural economy in the
State, to preserve large, contiguous areas of prime and productive agricultural land;
now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
statewide goal is to preserve 1.1 million acres of productive agricultural land double
triple the existing numbers of acres of productive agricultural land preserved by the
Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, GreenPrint, Rural Legacy, and
local preservation programs by the year 2022; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be forwarded by the Department of
Legislative Services to the Honorable Parris N. Glendening, Governor of Maryland;
the Honorable Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., President of the Senate of Maryland; the
Honorable Casper R. Taylor, Jr., Speaker of the House of Delegates; the Secretary of
Agriculture; the Secretary of Natural Resources; and the Secretary of Planning.
Signed May 16, 2002.
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Joint Resolution No. 18
(Senate Joint Resolution No. 15)
A Senate Joint Resolution concerning
Natural Resources - Mute Swans - Federal Agency Control Measures
FOR the purpose of urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to act with expedience
to craft and conduct appropriate regulatory processes which will allow
Maryland to establish a method of controlling the mute swan population and to
mitigate the mute swan population's impact permanently and statewide; urging
the U.S. Department of the Interior to appeal a certain holding; and generally
relating to certain federal agency measures to control the mute swan population.
WHEREAS, The bird species known as the mute swan is not native to the
Chesapeake Bay; and
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