Patuxent Research Refuge Offers March Events
The refuge will be celebrating its 77th birthday next week.
For years, the only thing I knew about the Patuxent Research Refuge was that its location made it harder to get from Odenton to visit my friends in Greenbelt. It's a big open place—more than 12,000 acres—located in the middle of a heavily-trafficked area. But I recently came to realize that it's a very special place to have nearby. The refuge, run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is just a stone's throw from Odenton but offers some great programs and events for residents to check out. I took my son to their open house last year and enjoyed a tram ride and learned quite a bit about the wildlife as well as the history of the area. (Did you know, for instance, that the park has the original telegraph poles used to transmit messages …
