#montgomery county

[reasonsforhope]

"Around the capital beltway or Washington’s famous Rock Creek Park, you may see a group of people ripping up vines along the treeline beside the roads.

If you have then you’ve glimpsed superheroes who traded in their capes for gardening gloves and their time for the satisfaction of terminating an invasive species and saving a native tree.

Washington D.C’s “Weed Warriors” are a group of volunteers going back to 1999 that work for free to keep hundreds of species of invasive shrubs, vines, and climbers from taking over native ecosystems.

Among the 600 or so non-native invasive plant species found in and around our nation’s capital, some like Polygonum perfoliatum, also known as “mile-a-minute” vine, can be devastating. Suffocating trees by overgrowing the leaves in their canopy branches, mile-a-minute can kill thousands of trees every year.

Since 1999, Weed Warrior volunteers have logged over 135,000 hours of time weed whacking in Montgomery County alone. Anyone can become a Weed Warrior; the group works in units for two-hour spaces removing weeds or planting native species in their place.

These invasive species management events are led by specially-trained volunteer Weed Warrior Supervisors and/or staff from the Montgomery Parks Dept. Warriors can get certified to de-weed in their spare time, or lead events on their own. They can even have their own unique patch of ground in the D.C.-Metro area to control.

Why would anyone want to trade their free time or laboring hours away for free doing something our tax dollars are supposed to do for us? The answer is simple: it’s addicting.

“If I have any good mental health, it’s due to Weed Warrioring,” said 74-year-old area resident Barbara Francisco. “You have a sense of accomplishment.” ...

The Weed Warriors website states that non-native, invasive plant species (NNIs) can alter the complex webs of plant-animal associations that have evolved over thousands of years to such a degree that plants and animals once familiar to us are eliminated...

Anyone who feels this is something they want to contribute their time to can go to the Montgomery County Parks website here and look at the upcoming Weed Warrior events—the next one is October 21st."

-via Good News Network, October 12, 2023

#washington dc #maryland #montgomery county #biodiversity #invasive species #invasive plants #vines #weeding #united states #volunteer #collectiveaction #planetearthfirst #forests #parks #good news #hope

[oldlinetrad]

Dogwood - April 2024

#Montgomery County #Old Line State

[middleland]

OH Dayton - Aullwood Audubon (2) (3) by Ken

Via Flickr:

(1) (2) Troll nest sculpture. (3) Troll sculpture by Thomas Dambo.     

#aullwood audobon center #dayton ohio #montgomery county #nothing answered yes #thomas dambo

[chaoticdesertdweller]

#throwback #in the country #rural america #rural #rural south #rural appalachia #appalachia #virginia #montgomery county #photography #life #original photographers #mental health #nature #abandoned buildings #old shed #gods country

[federer7]

August 4, 1935. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Bathing girls at Glen Echo amusement park."

Photo by Theodor Horydczak

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#Theodor Horydczak #1935 #montgomery county #maryland

[coquettishbaguette]

Mom died yesterday, the day after her birthday. My gift hadn’t even been delivered. You are missed.

#photographers on tumblr #orignal photography #landscape photography #maryland #montgomery county #fuck cancer

[wingedjewels]

Hummingbird Female. by Bob Rumer. Via Flickr: My Garden. Pa. Many thanks to all who take the time to view, comment and favoring my images. Enjoy the day.

#Hummingbird Female #Hummingbird #Bird #Bird Watching #Bird Watcher #Avian #Wildlife #Wildlife Photographer #Wildlife Watcher #Nature #Nature Watcher #Nature Photography #Montgomery County #Canon RF100-500mm Lens #Canon EOS R5 Camera #flickr

[crowpunkcognitivedecline]

i am genuinely fucking livid. i'm very glad he's safe and okay now, but i'm absolutely furious.

that man is rashawn williams, who is nonverbal and has down syndrome, as the heading says. he is high support and needs to be supervised/accompanied around the clock.

do you know how long he was missing?

six. days.

and all six days, he was in a back room at the glenmont metro station.

for context, i live in montgomery county, where this happened. i ride that metro, literally the same line he was lost on, almost daily. and the reason that my living here matters is that i can give a firsthand account and say moco and the metro don't fucking care about us.

they don't care about disabled people. actually, they'd probably really like us to vanish more if it wasn't their job to find us.

accessibility-wise, the glenmont station is particularly easy to get lost in if you experience any kind of confusion [the symptom], which i know because i've gotten lost when i have a migraine and taken twice as long as usual to find the exit.

the metro is very hard to ride in a wheelchair without help because the gap between the chair and the train is wide enough that front wheels will fall in.

sometimes the disabled turnstiles or the elevators just break and it's just like. oh well sucks to be you.

but in the case of finding rashawn, the montgomery county police (usually such loyal, gentle, compassionate souls) absolutely didn't give a shit. the MCPD didn't search particularly hard or keep in contact with appropriate agencies. metro employees worked with more urgency than them, telling rashawn's father of sightings and combing through security footage looking for him. (clearly, though, they fucking missed a spot--frankly i don't really know how they did because they knew which line he was on, about what time he got off, and the station he probably got off at, and he's pretty hard to miss given that he is immediately identifiable as a man with down syndrome, and it isn't like you constantly see that on the metro.)

he was in a room in the METRO STATION that he was last seen at for six days with no food or water.

like. yeah fuck this actually. and this bit isn't new, but fuck the MCPD.

(also we all know cops didn't care as much because he was disabled and Black, like. come on.)

#local (DC/MD) #acab #1312 #racism #ableism #montgomery county

[fedorahead]

update: thanks for the help. someone sent us an address and it was his last location. the staff at the apartment building let us know he died in september. i don't know why nobody decided to contact his family.

please help

My stepdad Greg hasn't checked in with us since August. Last we heard he was staying in someone else's apartment in Silver Spring post-eviction. That apartment is his last known location. We can't get in touch with the tenant for the apartment and don't know its address, though my mom will post some pictures from the balcony in the replies of this post so if you can identify the area please let me know.

He has blond hair, blue eyes, around 5'7/5'8. Around 175 lbs. 53 years old, most likely homeless right now.

He is a disabled veteran with type 1 diabetes, COPD, and legally blind. He also has depression and anxiety, and drinks alcohol. His depression can cause psychosis episodes. He's been off of hard drugs for years, but has a history of addiction, which can also trigger psychotic episodes. His doctor doesn't know where he is either. If he does not have access to proper treatment, he may be in a delirium or a coma. He is in medical danger.

"Walks like a pirate" - my mom

As of Veteran's Day Weekend, he is officially a missing person.

i don't know how many friends i have in the Montgomery County area of Maryland, but if anyone is around that area or knows anyone please keep an eye out. Have him call Rebecca.

#missing person #silver springs #maryland #montgomery county #please help #please share #i don't know what to do #sorry if tumblr isnt the best place for this #help find him #please #missing people #missing persons #medical emergency #medical danger

[nando161mando]

This needs to join the Leif Erikson statue at the bottom of the river

#philadelphia #usa #america #leif erikson #elkinspark #montgomery county #nazisploitation #nazis #nazi #americans #native american #antinazi #antinationalist #fucknazis #united states #unitedstateofamerica #unitedsnakes #goodnightwhitepride #161 #1312 #far right #right wing terrorism #right wing extremism #right wing politics #right wing women #right wing bullshit #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov

[carbombrenee]

Montgomery Old Cemetery, Montgomery, TX December 2022

#cemetery #headstone #taphophilia #down south #texas #montgomery county #road trip #pioneer cemeteries

[cannabisnewstoday]

#Maryland #cannabis lounge #montgomery county #cannabis #marijuana #weed #pot #medical marijuana #medical cannabis #legalization #legalize #cbd

[oldlinetrad]

Brookside Gardens - April 2024

#Montgomery County #Old Line State #Spring Flowers

[middleland]

OH Dayton - Aullwood Audubon Trolls and Troll Nest (2) (3) (4)by Ken

#aullwood audubon #dayton ohio #montgomery county #thomas dambo #dambo trolls #nothing answered yes

[chaoticdesertdweller]

#photography #life #original photographers #mental health #black and white photography #abandoned homes #abandoned #farmhouse #montgomery county #virginia #on the road #road trip #rural landscape #rural america #rural gothic #american gothic

[arctic-hands]

Each year hundreds of students nationwide are handcuffed at school for minor disciplinary actions with an outsize impact on Black and Hispanic children and kids with disabilities, according to an analysis of data by CBS News' Investigations. 

That data showed Maryland had one of the highest school arrest rates in the country.

...That video begins with officers encountering the child hiding by a car after teachers said he had a tantrum in the classroom and ran out of his elementary school in Silver Spring.

They placed him in the police cruiser and brought him back.

The video, more than 50 minutes long, shows an officer screaming at the crying child and another officer grabbing him and calling him names.

One officer said to "crate him" and he was acting "like a little beast."

Another officer said, "We need to have a conversation with his mom. This is like a little Chucky doll."

Roughly 39 minutes into the video, an officer briefly handcuffs the child.

...An officer even urged Grant to beat her son in the body camera video 

"I can't beat him," Grant said during the exchange. "Why?" the officer asked. "Because I'm not going to prison," Grant replied. "You don't go to prison for beating your child," the officer told her. 

...In another exchange several minutes later, an officer tells Grant, "You can beat your child in Montgomery County, Maryland. Just don't leave no cuts or no crazy cigarette burns or nothing like that. We're good."

We counted 19 times where one or both police officers threatened a beatIng in some manner of the child or suggested that he should be beaten. 19 times in front of him during the entire 51-minute video," Papirmeister said.

Our investigation found Maryland had the country's second highest arrest rate of elementary students in 2017, according to analysis of U.S. Department of Education data by CBS News. That data showed Maryland elementary schools called police on children 203 times in a single year. 98 of them were arrested. Of those arrested, five were white, 82 were Black and six were Hispanic. Of those who had police called on them, 35 were white, 142 were Black and 16 Hispanic....

#police brutality #child abuse #racism #ableism #silver spring #montgomery county #Maryland