by Tom Horton
If there was a place in the Chesapeake watershed where people might have learned to grow greenly, it was Southern Maryland’s Mattawoman Creek, a lesson in sustainability long begging to be learned.
Forty years ago, the 19-mile-long tributary of the Potomac, 25 miles downstream and a world away from Washington, DC, was known to state and federal natural resources departments and national environmental groups as a special place.
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