This page is a growing directory of resources. Here you can find links, key documents (reports, master plans, and fact sheets) and videos. Please let us know if you would like your organization to be added to our list.
Plenty is an award-winning print and digital magazine about all that awaits you to explore, savor and enjoy in Montgomery County’s 93,000-acre Agricultural Reserve and beyond.
Conservation Montgomery is a coalition of civic and environmental organizations, and individual residents, who address Montgomery County’s environmental and quality-of-life challenges.
The Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir serve as guardians of Ten Mile Creek and its watershed, preserving and protecting this unique place.
In the late 1950s, agricultural and open space preservation arose as a social and economic issue. The loss of agricultural and open space land, as a metropolitan planning issue, was expressed in terms of metropolitan needs and problems — the need to preserve open space and the diseconomy in building the costly infrastructure to serve scattered suburban development.
The Sugarloaf Citizen’s Association (SCA) engaged the Institute of Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) to determine how economically feasible it is for Montgomery County to transition to a Zero Waste system as the county considers ending the use of the Montgomery County Resource Recovery Facility (MCRRF) municipal solid waste incinerator by April 1, 2021 when the contract with the facility expires.
This Plan focuses on the preservation of farmland but it also tries to establish a policy framework that will contribute to the continuation of farming in the County. Local government can control the quantity of land designated for farmland preservation, given its policy power and overall growth policies.