Chestnut oak acorns

Gray Hairstreak photographed on the Upper Paint Branch Trail, Spencerville, MD

Areas where waterways cut across the Fall Line often tend to be environmentally preserved, with higher quality forests, cleaner waterways, and greater variety of native plant life.

THANK YOU to the community volunteers who came out for the Cross Creek Cleanup! Results from @montgomeryparks.bsky.social :

"4 trash bags, 6 recycling bags, and ~50lbs of oversized items. This means that you all removed around 300lbs of trash from the Little Paint Branch Watershed!"