Mrs. Bill D. Clark This is Me

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1. 1. Community activists fix local trail

   www.gazette.net/200428/clinton - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/8/2004   Last Visited: 7/8/2004

   "We want to make the trail sustainable, maintainable in such a fashion that hikers and bikers can use it with out sustaining injury or causing damage to the trail," said Bill Clark, manager of Fort Washington Park.
   
   Clark said this project would make the trail more accessible to hikers and bikers, along with elderly and disabled users.
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   "Our hope is that [the trail] will green itself back up," said Clark.

2. 2. Bay Journal: July-August 2003 - Vol. 13 - No. 5 - gateways

   www.bayjournal.com/03-07/gatew - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/26/2003   Last Visited: 8/23/2003

   "Any ship coming around the point would have to face the guns, and they would have to come close to the fort," said Bill Clark,park manager of Fort Washington Park.
   
   The strategy failed for Fort Warburton not because of its location, but because the fort's design was already antiquated when it was built, and because it was never given the garrison, or the number of guns, envisioned.
   
   The guns it did have were poorly sited: Only two could fire on approaching ships. Also, they took five minutes each to reload. In all likelihood, Clark noted, the fort's 1814 defenders would never have had a chance to fire a second shot against the approaching fleet of ships.
   
   The new, larger Fort Washington was completed in 1824. It was built higher on the bluff, with walls 40-60 feet high, and 20-feet thick in places.
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   "It had a heart-wrenching effect on us," Clark said.
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   "When you talk about trying to preserve something without volunteers, you are just spinning your wheels," Clark said.
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   "You are so close to the nation's capital that you can see the Washington Monument, and yet literally hear the birds flying by," Clark said.

3. 3. News from the Southern Prince George's Trails Coalition

   www.ohbike.org/bikesbelong/pot - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/1/1999   Last Visited: 12/29/2007

   Bill Clark, the site director for Fort Washington, Fort Foote, and Piscataway National Park, expressed great interest in the Potomac Heritage Trail and believed that potential problems with the trail entering park areas with entrance fees (specifically Fort Washington and the Colonial Farm) could be worked out.
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   Bill Clark, Site Director for Fort Washington, Fort Foote, and Piscataway National Parforts tells of restorations planned for the fort.
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   Bill Clark talks to Senator Sarbanes about the fort