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Way DownstreamIn Maryland, summer means Bay Bridge back-ups. But drivers don’t have to travel blindly into the congestion In Annapolis, finally, our state reptile, the diamondback terrapin, gets relief. Maryland Department of Natural Resources has developed a conservation management plan on the recommendations of the Maryland Diamondback Terrapin Task Force Report and the requirements of a new law. Proposed rules would limit harvested terrapins to four to seven inches. Harvesting season would shrink from nine months to three months, Aug. 1 through Oct. 31. Finally, commercial harvesters must be permitted and file reports. Emergency regulations will head off the approaching nine-month harvest season, slated to start Aug. 1, • Public hearing 7pm Monday, July 10, in C-1 conference room, Tawes State Office Building, 580 Taylor Ave., Annapolis. • By email until July 17 for the emergency regulation; July 21 to Aug. 21 for permanent regulation: [email protected] … Our Creature Feature, from Laguna Beach this week, appeared under a headline that assured we would read what followed: California Pelicans Held On Suspicion of Being Drunk. Remember Hitchcock’s The Birds? The gulls that pecked at Tippi Hedren supposedly were deranged after |
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magnet. See farther down the road with the Maryland Transportation Authority’s free hotline — 1-877-bayspan — which gives up-to-the-minute recorded updates on Bay Bridge traffic, including delays, wind conditions and other precautionary messages. Dial the year-round service before you head down to the ocean (that’s daniation for Baltimoreans) …
while the rules are reviewed. Add your voice to the debate in two ways:
eating shellfish tainted with domoic acid. That’s what the poison authorities in California believe was devoured by brown pelicans found dazed in the street on Saturday. One crashed into a windshield and was seriously injured after apparently eating contaminated algae. Three others were undergoing tests at a wildlife center. A public warning was issued to look out for more birds acting drunk and disoriented.