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Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
by Marlene Berlin Roger Myers, wearing a green “penny” marking him as a trail volunteer, was clearing out a water channel when I happened upon him on a recent Sunday in Rock Creek Park. Myers heads a volunteer group that maintains the popular Black Horse Trail along Rock Creek. And he had news for me. […]
Decades ago, for reasons unknown, someone decided to confine a section of Broad Branch Stream to an underground pipe. When the stream saw daylight again in 2014, the restoration team envisioned a place that could filter and slow the flow of stormwater flowing to Rock Creek, a place where wildlife could thrive, and a place […]
Our advisory neighborhood commission meets once each month. Two ANC 3F committees meet monthly as well, to dive in more detail into issues of interest to Van Ness, Forest Hills and North Cleveland Park. The next committee meetings are this week: The Parks and Trails Committee is meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at Forest Hills […]
Rock Creek Park is an oasis of nature in the middle of our city, but nature in a city needs a lot of human help to thrive. Rock Creek Conservancy has identified five “mini-oases” where it is focusing its restoration efforts over the next two years. By 2020, it aims to show “what a fully […]
by Marlene Berlin It’s been almost a year since our last update on the century-old sewers running through Soapstone Valley, and almost six years since DC Water and the National Park Service revealed plans to do something about them. So first, a recap: Both the National Park Service and DC Water worry the aging sewer […]
It may not look as dramatic as the Broad Branch Road flooding we showed you last summer, but the road also floods where the daylighted portion of the stream passes through a pipe underneath the roadbed. Cecelia Lane, watershed specialist at the DC Department of Energy and the Environment, was at ANC 3F’s February 19th […]
by Marlene Berlin Cold and clear weather provides a great opportunity to see our local streams dressed up in their icy finery. On my walk Wednesday to Broad Branch Market to get my Black Rooster Rye bread, I decided to take a look at the Broad Branch and Linnean Streams. Because of all the rain […]
Volunteer events aren’t allowed in Rock Creek Park during the government shutdown. The MLK Day cleanups at National Park Service sites are now meeting in nearby neighborhoods to pick up trash that otherwise would be washed or blown into the Rock Creek watershed. The links below have been updated with the new information. Martin Luther […]
by Marlene Berlin Last weekend, our late-arriving fall colors finally popped. (The Washington Post says it was the best in years.) It was a glorious time to be out walking in Rock Creek Park and the neighborhood. With a picture perfect blue sky and brilliant sun, the yellows, oranges and reds danced off the waters […]
“There seems to be a persistent and pervasive problem in Forest Hills (and neighboring areas) of dog walkers failing to leash their dogs,” Forest Hills neighbor Paul Walters recently wrote in an email to Council member Mary Cheh: This is dangerous for the dog, the owner, and others. A dog’s behavior with people or other […]
