Sun photo by Doug KapustinRock Creek currently meanders quietly through a sprawling forest near Needwood Lake. Under one of the proposals for the Intercounty Connector, a long bridge would span the creek. Environmentalists intent on preventing the construction of the ICC in Montgomery and Prince George's counties are quick to point to the land, trees, wetlands and streams they contend will be destroyed by building the roadway.
Sun photo by Doug KapustinVernal pools, such as this one in Rock Creek park, are breeding grounds for a number of amphibians.
Sun photo by Doug KapustinJohn Parrish (right), vice president of the Maryland Native Plant Society, and Brad Henry, campaign director with the Audubon Society, are among the environmentalists intent on preventing the construction of the Intercounty Connector in Montgomery and Prince George's counties. The pair surveyed a hillside near Needwood Lake that would be cut into for a long bridge.
Sun photo by Doug KapustinJim Fary of the Montgomery County Sierra Club stands beneath a huge tulip poplar that would likely be cut down regardless of which route is chosen.
Sun photo by Doug KapustinJohn Parrish, a local activist, stands in the Good Hope tributary, part of the last brown trout spawning watershed in the Washington area.
Sun photo by Doug Kapustin
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Rock Creek currently meanders quietly through a sprawling forest near Needwood Lake. Under one of the proposals for the Intercounty Connector, a long bridge would span the creek. Environmentalists intent on preventing the construction of the ICC in Montgomery and Prince George's counties are quick to point to the land, trees, wetlands and streams they contend will be destroyed by building the roadway.
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