Ocean City, Maryland 21842
Coastal-Style Home With Gorgeous
Bay and Ocean Views, Maple and
Tile Flooring Throughout, Gourmet
Kitchen, Granite-Topped Wet Bar
with Wine Fridge and Ice Maker,
Geothermal HVAC, Elevator,
Intercom System, Central Vac, and
Climate Controlled 3-Car Garage.
$1,990,000
Situated on Over 5 Acres in WOC.
Pull Down Your Manicured
Driveway to the Serenity of 5 Acres
Just Minutes From the beach.
5BR/4.5BA, Every Bedroom has a
Balcony! Plus a 2BR/1BA Apartment
Over the Garage. So Many Upgrades,
You Have to See This Beautiful
Home. $1,400,000
waterfront home on the river.
Custom built by the builder for his
own family and shows pride of own-
ership. Enjoy Gorgeous views on the
river from most every room with
deep water and plenty of boat dock-
age from your own pier. Too many
features to mention. $1,250,000
!
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with a View,
Beautifully
Furnished
and Ready
for You!
$135,000
Nicely
Maintained
2BR/2BA.
Sold Fully
Furnished.
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cur any day. The mare "Carol's Girl,"
which has already birth 11 foals on
Assateague, is due for another any
day now. Carol's Girl has been re-
sistant to birth control efforts. She
lives with a group called Yankee's
Band that hangs around the state
park.
horses near the developed state
park area, park officials are urging
the public to give Carol's Girl and
her new addition plenty of space
foster horse program and the ag-
ency will probably hold an auction
later this year for its naming rights.
For example, one of the new foals
birthed on the island last year was
named Braidwood earlier this year
after the successful bidder named
the young horse after a character in
a book she read about the famed
wild ponies on Assateague. Another
foal born last year was named Aliy-
ana Grace, which loosely means
"beautiful girl" in Spanish after the
theory of the horses arriving on the
island over a century ago from a
shipwrecked Spanish galleon.
considerably lower than a decade
ago, but still far from the target of
under 100. While three to five foals
are added to the herd in a typical
year, an in-kind number drop off due
to old age, illness or other natural or
man-made factors. The mortality
rate is around 3 to 5 percent, mean-
ing three to five out of 100 are lost
each year to attrition, which corre-
sponds to the three to five new foals
birthed each year.
checked would overtake the barrier
island and gobble up the resources
the wild ponies need to survive, the
National Park Service several years
ago began a contraceptive program
for the mares in the herd. The
mares are injected with a non-inva-
sive contraceptive to prevent multi-
ple births in an effort to maintain and
ultimately shrink the size of the herd
to its manageable threshold.
ies, believed to be descendants of
domesticated horses placed on the
island 300 years ago, each mare is
allowed to birth one foal before
being put on the contraceptive pro-
gram.
etly getting its legs under it in a re-
mote area at the national seashore.
rather sterile early moniker N9BFQ-
GL, was birthed on Assateague
sometime in mid-May. The sorrel
foal was the first new edition to the
wild pony herd in 2013 after a rela-
tive baby boom in 2012 when three
new ponies were born in the span of
a little over two months.
N9BFQ-G, in a remote part of the
island far away from the north end,
where Tuesday's excitement sur-
rounding the discovery and detona-
tion of over 100 pieces of World War
II ordnance took place, according to
Chief of Interpretation and Educa-
tion Rachelle Daigneault. Thus far,
the foal appears to be thriving
although the wild herd is largely left
on its own unless illness or injuries
occur.
tem put in place by the National
Park Service in the mid-1970s to
track the lineage and ancestry of the
wild horses and identify which sub-
herd they belong to and the areas
they frequent on the island.