Next Meeting and Other Upcoming Events
2021 HCCA Membership Meetings will be held on the third Wednesday of each month (except November and December)
Next Meeting: Wednesday, April 21, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Topics: Regenerative Garden at Rockfield, “The Bel Air Five,” Saving Abingdon Woods and more. If it is raining, we’ll meet virtually. Join via meet.google.com/aty-gcnm-bgc or by phone at +1 216-930-8873 | PIN: 669220361 If it is dry, we’ll meet at the pavilion by the parking lot in the Emily Bayless Graham Park on Wheel Rd across from Festival Mall.
Saturday, April 17, 2021@10:00 a.m. Adopt-a-Road Clean Up at 1200 Moores Mill Rd., Bel Air. Meet in the parking lot of Southampton Middle School.
Saturday, May 15, 2021@noon: Planting the Regenerative, Native Pollinator Garden at Rockfield Manor. Rain date May 16@noon. Volunteers welcome. RSVP to (443)243-3363
Category Archives: HCCA Campaigns
Defend Abingdon Woods – Donate today!
The Coalition to Stop the Abingdon Business Park from clearing 326 acres of wetland forest to make way for over 2 million square feet of new warehouses in a county with dozens of vacant warehouses already needs you! Please help … Continue reading
Kathy Tunney: County should help purchase Abingdon Woods
Kathy Tunney recommends to the county council that they look into a way to purchase the Abingdon Woods property and preserve it as a recreational park for the public. 17 Dec 2019 – Harford County Council meeting – Public Comment
“Extinction is forever” -Fawn Palmer alerts Council to endangered species in Abingdon Woods
Fawn Palmer, senior naturalist, remindes the Harford County Council that extinction is forever and alerts them to endangered status of the Spongy Arrowhead, Sagittaria spatulata which grows in the freshwater, tidal mud flats in the HaHa Branch where it empties … Continue reading
Dont let Abingdon become a “Toxic Tour” site – Aravinda Pillalamarri
Aravinda Pillalamarri asks County Council to protect Abingdon Woods so that the site does not in the future become a site of air and water pollution, flooding and other environmental damage. She warns that it may become the site of … Continue reading
Tracey Waite Brings Receipts
Tracey Waite calls out campaign contributions and asks if they have influenced council votes on the Abingdon Business Park which would destroy 300+ acres of wetlands in Abingdon Woods.
Find Alternate Sites – Lakshmi Tadepalli to Harford County Council
Lakshmi Tadepalli reads a poem about trees and asks the Harford County Council why we are destroying the wetlands for the sake of warehouses.
Woods not Warehouses, Ecosystems not Enterprise Zones! People over Profits!
Woods not Warehouses, Ecosystems not Enterprise Zones! People over Profits! Since January when a sign placed in the woods alerted nearby residents of a plan to convert the 326 acre wetland forest area to a warehouse business park, the community … Continue reading
Stop Abingdon Business Park
Harford County Climate Action is a member of a coalition of parties opposed to the destruction of Abingdon Woods, i.e. to the “Abingdon Business Park” plan. We are partnering with Friends of Harford and neighborhood associations, such as Autumn Run, … Continue reading
Community Opposes Abingdon Business Park at County Council
Since early in 2019 when community members in Abingdon – Joppa – Edgewood brought to the notice of Harford County Climate Action that a 300 acre stretch of woods along the Haha Branch of the Bush River was being threatened … Continue reading
Group Protests Off-Shore Oil and Seismic Blasting at Harris’s Office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Tracey Waite Harford County Climate Action | hcclimateaction@gmail.com A vocal group of 20 people including 5 middle and high school students braved the frigid winds Friday, January 2, to oppose the Trump administration’s move to open … Continue reading
