Friends of Sligo Creek is a nonprofit community organization dedicated to protecting, improving, and appreciating the ecological health of Sligo Creek park and its surrounding watershed.
Welcome to the FOSC website
You’re on our new website with a clean interface, new information and interactive features as well as many of the resources from the old site. We’re not finished transferring all the material we definitely want to include, but it’s coming in the next few months as we review and update it. Revisions to the mobile view are also underway.
Please let us know what else you’d like to see or if you don’t find what you’re looking for.
-Mike Smith, President of FOSC
Sligo in Fall
Enjoy the Fall weather and FOSC’s latest video. While you’re on YouTube, subscribe to the FOSC YouTube Channel!
News & Updates
From the Individual and Family Sweeps of litter in the Creek
See photos from the Sweep the Creek efforts this fall.
Thanks to everyone who did an individual or family sweep in the last few weeks. Keep up the good work! Please share your individual sweep or other Sligo Creek pictures with FOSC. They’ll be posted on the website, on facebook, and in the newsletter.
Ellsworth Drive Synthetic Turf Proposal
The Hearing Officer received testimony and will make a recommendation to the County Executive; the County Executive will make a recommendation to the County Council; and the Council will vote on whether to approve the abandonment (transfer ownership from the public sector to the private developer) of Ellsworth.
This is an important issue for downtown Silver Spring. FOSC opposes roadway abandonment to allow installation of synthetic turf because of human health and environmental pollution impacts.
Plastic bits from the newly installed synthetic turf in the Discovery Building courtyard on 9.2020