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Protecting Montgomery County's environmentStream

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission's Montgomery County Planning Board, through its extensive system of parks and its planning and regulatory activities, protects Montgomery County's natural resources as it balances the competing needs of the larger community.

As a planning and regulatory agency as well as a land owner, the M-NCPPC safeguards the County's environment through natural resources planning, development planning, and review of development projects, as well as land acquisition and conservation of County parklands. Staff carries out a comprehensive program for the planning and management of Countywide natural resources (on private lands) and resources on lands under the stewardship of the M-NCPPC (public parklands).

This work is conducted by Environmental Planning of the Countywide Planning Division, and the Natural Resource Stewardship Section of the Park Planning and Stewardship Division as well as Brookside Gardens and the Horticulture Section.