A new debate is brewing over the proposed UMD Wooded Hillock development.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/14/AR2009111402347.html?hpid=news-col-blog

“..after prolonged but apparently insufficient study, the school wants to bulldoze nine acres of the hillock’s 22 to make room for equipment sheds, a parking lot and other maintenance facilities.”

See also..

http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/wooded-hillock-s-status-uncertain-1.934448

Environmental activists who have been fighting to preserve the Wooded Hillock expressed shock and confusion after East Campus’ primary developer Foulger-Pratt/Argo Investment pulled out of the project late last week, because no one seems to know what impact this turn of events will have on the forest.