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.
Virtual events at this time
FOSC is holding September and October events virtually.
Tuesday, Sept. 22, FOSC is offering Surprises in the Park – a Nature in Fall Family Zoom Outing from 5:00pm – 6:30pm. Join FOSC to receive the Zoom link.
Saturday Sept. 26th (National Public Lands Day) through Sunday October 11th, Friends of Sligo Creek is promoting an extended Individual and Family Sweep the Creek. We hope you, either as an individual or a family group, will pick up trash and litter in Sligo sometime during these two weeks. With physical distancing, of course! Share your individual sweep or other Sligo Creek pictures and we’ll feature them on a homepage gallery, on facebook, and in the newsletter!
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
News & Updates
Ellsworth Drive Synthetic Turf Proposal
Update: Written comments are open until Sept 28.
The public hearing on “abandonment” (transfer from public to private ownership) of the portion of Ellsworth Drive, for which synthetic turf is proposed, was held on Monday, Sept. 14 (Case AB-771).
Next, the Hearing Officer 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 of Ellsworth.
This is an important issue for downtown Silver Spring. FOSC opposes roadway abandonment and installation of synthetic turf because of human health and environmental pollution impacts.
See FOSC’s letter to the Planning Board in June under Letters and Testimony.
