LONACONING v. DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT

No. 139, September Term, 2008.

978 A.2d 702 (2009)

410 Md. 326

LONACONING TRAP CLUB, INC. v. MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF The ENVIRONMENT.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 26, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason C. Buckel (S. Ramani Pillai, Buckel & Levasseur, Cumberland), on brief, for Petitioner.

Matthew Zimmerman, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen.), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS and BARBERA, JJ.


HARRELL, J.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?1 An existentialist likely would decline to confront the riddle because human impact expressly is excluded by the query.2 No philosophers they, the Maryland Department of the Environment, however, apparently would entertain something approaching the obverse of the question: If firearms are fired in a rural area of...

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