way also serves as the basis for the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail and the Odenton Bike Path. In the mid-1980s, Morris Warren, a Prince George's County trail advocated began pushing the county to turn the railroad right-of-way into a trail, founding the Prince George's WB & A Trail Club prior to 1991. In July 1991, Prince George's County Executive Parris N. Glendening announced definitive plans to open that county's section of trail, and later that year, the entire ROW from Baltimore to Lanham was included in the Baltimore-Washington Grenway. Around the same time Anne Arundel County began planning what was originally known as the West County Trail (WCT) along a piece of the right-of-way between Prince George's and Odenton. It showed up in Maryland planning material as early as 1992. In 1994, 4.1 miles of the railroad right-of-way in Anne Arundel County was given to the county for the WCT by Constellation Real Estate to meet open space and recreational space requirements as part of their development of Piney Orchard. The right-of-way in Prince George's county, parts of which were owned by Amtrak, the state of Maryland and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission was purchased in 1995, clearing the way for construction. In the same year, Anne Arundel County finished the West County Trail Master Plan. In Anne Arundel County, a dispute over the ownership of the section near the Patuxent River began to emerge as trail construction became imminent. The WB&A railroad ran alongside a plot of land belonging to Buz Meyer, a local conservationist, outdoors enthusiast and trail opponent. Meyer and his brother Robert had long argued that the trail would be a source of crime stating that "unprotected hiker-biker trails evolve into mugger-thugger trails" and that it would bring "unbridled bandits" to the area. Meyer argued that the deed granting the right-of-way to the railroad included a stipulation that it would revert to the Meyers if the tracks went unused, the county believed that it held a "good deed" to the land and in May 2001, they sued Meyer as the first step in the condemnation process. The county was trying to resolve the issue prior to a June 20, 2001 deadline for nearly $1 million in state funding. Despite thinking they had bought the railroad, the county withdrew the lawsuit in late June 2001 after a letter writing campaign by other hunters. County officials decided to