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
- “What If We Dreamt Bigger…” Meeting #2On May 4, Remington-based developer Seawall held its second community meeting about reuse of the Potts & Callahan Falls Rd. industrial properties it has under contract, this time drawing about 50 attendees to Beth Am Synagogue in Reservoir Hill. Seawall co-founder Thibault Manekin opened with a recap of the March 24 meeting themes: environmental concerns, development versusContinue reading ““What If We Dreamt Bigger…” Meeting #2″
- Lower JFX Removal – “Not If, But When”On April 25, The Congress for the New Urbanism Mid-Atlantic Chapter convened a panel of urban planning experts — Al Barry, Pavlina Ilieva, Gabriel Kroiz and Marc Wouters — for a symposium on removing the Jones Falls Expressway (JFX) along the lower Jones Falls to “daylight” more of the stream. The event came at a time whenContinue reading “Lower JFX Removal – “Not If, But When””
- “Delivered, We Planted”It’s been years, if not decades, since the lower Jones Falls stream, north of the Howard St. undergrounding, has had a planting plan for new trees and shrubs, much less Maryland natives. For FTJF Stewardship’s 0.6 mi. focus area running from the Jones Falls Trail crossover at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum north to the Round Falls Dam, 30Continue reading ““Delivered, We Planted””
Friends of The Jones Falls 
