Critics object to University of Maryland plan to bulldoze woods on campus
May 7, 2009
Officials say the university needs to clear the land to relocate facilities displaced by campus redevelopment
From The Baltimore Sun: The University of Maryland, College Park aspires to be one of the "greenest" institutions of higher education in the nation and plans to celebrate its designation as an arboretum and "tree campus." But some students and professors say the administration is missing the forest for the trees by planning to bulldoze nearly 9 acres of woods on the 1,400-acre campus to make way for maintenance sheds, a mail-handling depot and a parking lot for the university's buses and trucks. University officials say they need to use most of the 15-acre wooded hill behind the Comcast Center to relocate support facilities that are to be displaced by the redevelopment on east campus.
