Dyke Marsh and Beyond

Wetland Restoration Focus of Upcoming Public Meeting

Huntley Meadows Park wetland restoration plans will be presented at two upcoming public meetings.

After 18 years of worrying, planning, meeting, debating, designing and redesigning, the Fairfax County Park Authority (FCPA) will restore and stabilize Huntley Meadows Park’s central wetland, Huntley Meadows Park manager Kevin Munroe said on a recent walk in the park. Park officials will hold two public meetings to present restoration plans. Park managers and the contractor, Wetlands Studies and Solutions, will explain the proposed design and purposes. The “crown jewel” of the 1,500-acre park, according to many of its 200,000 annual visitors, is the 50-plus-acre, non-tidal wetland, the largest of its kind and a rarity in the Northern Virginia suburbs.  Accessing it by the boardwalk that winds over the water, many visitors delight in seeing…

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Wynne Kelch

8:27 am on Monday, November 26, 2012

Thanks for the update. I've been wondering about the status of the intervention.   more ›

Gunston Hall Celebrates George Mason Day

One of the most important documents in human history was ratified 236 years ago, and it was written in Lorton. Del. Scott Surovell and state Sen. Toddy Puller participated in a ceremony marking George Mason Day.

Local leaders participated in a ceremony Tuesday recognizing founding father George Mason. On June 12, 1776, Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights was adopted unanimously by the Fifth Virginia Convention at Williamsburg. The document, which was the first to constitutionally defend the individual rights of man, heavily influenced the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Bill of Rights and the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Consequently, on Tuesday, 236 years after the fact, a small celebration was held at Mason's former home at Gunston Hall.  "This document put Virginia on the map, and we were respected around the world for what we said about government," said Del. Scott Surovell (D-44) to a …

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