A green sanctuary
UD volunteers help transform dying urban forest into Peace Park
Efforts to revitalize a 10-acre tract of dying and ecologically compromised woods in southwest Baltimore have been described in a variety of terms in recent news articles, from the spiritual (âOur Earth is a gift from God,â says the pastor whose church owns the land) to the scientific (âWhat weâre trying to build is a climate-adapted, resilient forest,â according to a U.S. Forest Service researcher).
For church and community members, the project that is transforming a damaged landscape into a peaceful and restorative green space has become a way of combating years of the kinds of environmental neglect that are common in many low-income and African American neighborhoods.