Lynch, Daniel S., 1917-2008

Daniel S. Lynch was vice president of the Coalition to Preserve Black Marsh, Inc., (CPBM). In 1990, a group of concerned environmental activists formed this non-profit coalition in order to prevent development of North Point State Park (NPSP), part of the Gunpowder Falls State Park system in Baltimore County, Maryland. The other elected officers of CPBM were Richard C. Pollack, Sr., president; Vera D. Hinkelman, treasurer; and Cynthia Stitz, secretary. Polly Wirth served as president of the CPBM board of directors. By 1995, about 1,000 individual and fifty group members belonged to the coalition and supported its campaign to preserve and conserve Black Marsh.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) proposed several alternative plans for developing NPSP. Features of the plans included a golf course; a visitor's center; dining facilities; roadways; piers; and renovation of the historic, twentieth-century Bay Shore Amusement Park. The Coalition argued that the implementation of these plans would threaten the balance of the Black Marsh, which is a part of NPSP and a designated State Wildland and Natural Heritage Area. The 232-acre Black Marsh rests along the Chesapeake Bay and hosts an ecosystem that includes endangered plants and animals, such as the bald eagle.

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