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Give a gift of flowers that will bloom in Rock Creek Park year after year.

Thank you to the hundreds of great volunteers who came out for the 4th Rock Creek Extreme Cleanup on Saturday, April 14th!  Rock Creek Conservancy worked with the National Park Service and Montgomery County Parks to mobilize volunteers at 51 locations to take trash out of Rock Creek and the surrounding woodlands.  Cleanups were spread over the 33 miles of Rock Creek.

Rock Creek Conservancy is mourning the loss of Brian Lemley, a photographer who loved Rock Creek and was in the park almost daily. He took hundreds of pictures in the park and often appeared, camera in hand, at cleanups and other Conservancy events.

Brian's photography work included a January 2011 cleanup at Aspen Hill.  He is pictured here with Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who participated in the cleanup on Martin Luther King Day, one year before Brian’s untimely death on Martin Luther King Day in 2012.  Brian was a fixture at the Rock Creek Extreme Cleanup, and he will be missed this year.