SUSTAINING MARYLAND'S FUTURE   Hyatt Regency, Chesapeake Bay Sunday, June 1 - Tuesday, June 3 2008

MEDA Annual 2008 Tours

Sunday June 1, 2008

This year MEDA offers a Sunday of informative and fun events for full conference participants and their families. The schedule is designed to allow attendees to sign up for all three events. The bus will return to the Hyatt at the end of each tour.

9am - 11:00am

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1933 as a waterfowl sanctuary for birds migrating along the critical migration highway called the Atlantic Flyway. Blackwater Refuge is located on Maryland's scenic Eastern Shore, which is just 12 miles south of Cambridge, and consists of over 27,000 acres of freshwater impoundments, brackish tidal wetlands, open fields, and mixed evergreen and deciduous forests. Blackwater is one of over 540 units in the National Wildlife Refuge System and is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is part of the Department of the Interior. For more information about Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge click HERE.

We have timed the tour to allow you to return to the Hyatt where the tour of Downtown Cambridge will begin at noon.

11:00 - 1:30

Tour of Downtown Cambridge/LUNCH - sponsored by DHCD

Through the Main Street Maryland program, our towns and cities are experiencing revitalization and growth that allow us to celebrate and build upon our rich past. Join the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, the City of Cambridge and Cambridge Main Street for a tour of the commercial district that will highlight rehab investment, small business and what's next for this vibrant downtown. See firsthand the economic and community development challenges faced and conquered and those still being addressed as Cambridge seeks to create and implement community endorsed plans to revitalize, improve, and promote their neighborhoods, economy, and quality of life.

1:30-4:00pm

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science at Horn Point Laboratory

The Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) is an environmental research facility of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) the principal institution for advanced environmental research and graduate studies within the University System of Maryland . The other UMCES laboratories are the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory , in Southern Maryland, and the Appalachian Laboratory , in the mountains of Western Maryland.

Bus departs Hyatt Regency at 1:30 an returns at 4:00pm

Please make your selection on the registration page for the conference. Only registered guests can participate. Please complete one registration for each person.