Recently, Baltimore Green Space, an organization started by 2007 OSI Community Fellow Miriam Avins, joined with Fairwood Forest and Glenham-Belhar Community Association to preserve Fairwood Forest, the first community forest to be preserved in Baltimore City. Baltimore Green Space was able to negotiate protections for the area in a land trust. Learn more here.
Avins started Baltimore Green Space to create a land trust for community-managed open spaces.