Supporting the Jones Falls Watershed
Our mission is to engage communities of the Jones Falls Watershed to preserve, protect, enhance, and conserve the environmental integrity while promoting sustainable development of the 18-mile long Jones Falls and its 37,290 acre watershed.
The Jones Falls Watershed Strategic Plan
Over the next two years, volunteers and environmental leaders in Baltimore will engage the community to co-create a Strategic Plan for the future of the Jones Falls and its connected waterways. Read more about the announcement here.
Who We Are
Established in 2018, the Friends of The Jones Falls, Inc., is a volunteer-based organization incorporated to support and sustain the quality of life and long-term stewarship of the Jones Falls from the headwaters in Baltimore County to the Inner Harbor.
Announcements
- *Public Meeting Announcement* High-Voltage Transmission Lines Crossing Over the Jones Falls Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 7 PM, at the Baltimore Streetcar MuseumPlease plan to attend this important meeting. What are the community choices about this proposed BGE project, if any? Surely there’s a way to bury these lines under the Jones Falls? Otherwise, the cost to the residents of South Remington, to wildlife in and around the stream, to swaths of tree canopy and to theContinue reading “*Public Meeting Announcement* High-Voltage Transmission Lines Crossing Over the Jones Falls Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 7 PM, at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum”
- Two Important Decision Meetings about the Jones Falls Watershed Upcoming – Please registerHello Watershed inhabitants- I want to strongly encourage your attendance to review the preliminary recommendations from the initial Strategic Plan stakeholder meetings last winter. These meetings and your ideas are critically important for giving legitimacy to our Plan findings for the Watershed, as finalized and recommended by our esteemed contractor Biohabitats, when bringing to both cityContinue reading “Two Important Decision Meetings about the Jones Falls Watershed Upcoming – Please register”
- State of the Jones Falls Watershed: A Major Update from the DNROn Wednesday, Nov. 4, the FTJF Stewardship and Communications Committees will host a presentation by the DNR’s which focuses exclusively on its data harvested from the Jones Falls Watershed and analyzed. This level of Watershed focus hasn’t been offered in a long time- The DNR’s Monitoring and Non-Tidal Assessment unit (MANTA) will be presenting MBSS (Maryland Biological StreamContinue reading “State of the Jones Falls Watershed: A Major Update from the DNR”
