How the UMD community saved Guilford Woods, stopped housing development plans

By Lena LaJoy
The University of Maryland, along with a private developer, began a development plan in fall 2020 to tear down Guilford Woods and build graduate housing for campus and private town homes for residents, according to a biology professor. Continue reading How the UMD community saved Guilford Woods, stopped housing development plans

The Wildlife Society aims to make the College Park area more animal-friendly

By Mia Salenetri If you happened to encounter groups of students picking up dead birds at 4 a.m. last semester, you might have already met The Wildlife Society. For 10 days straight this past fall, groups of UMD Wildlife Society members picked up 22 dead birds that had crashed into windows around campus as part of the Lights Out Baltimore initiative — a group that advocates … Continue reading The Wildlife Society aims to make the College Park area more animal-friendly