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17 Apr 2019
Caring Vet is a Hero Among 'Heroes'
Retired Navy Senior Chief and Chef Adam Gagne relishes the chance to share his passion for kayak fishing with veterans and first responders.
Topics: Advocate, Events, Restore, The Susquehanna River, Volunteers
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04 Apr 2019
Farmer Profiles: Dave Graybill
“You have to control the good things in your environment.”
Topics: Agriculture, Best Management Practices, Land Use, Polluted Runoff, Water Quality
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21 Mar 2019
This Month on the Bay: March’s Lion Has Lost His Teeth
True to form, March 2019 came in like a lion this year.
Topics: About the Bay, Kent Island's Four Seasons Development, Fun, Ospreys
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15 Mar 2019
This Week in the Watershed: A Slap in the Face
Whether on cable news, your social media feed, or at the family dinner table, political bickering feels inescapable. But across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, individuals of all political persuasions can all agree on one topic–clean water.
Topics: Advocate, Climate Change, Conservation, Events, Federal Appropriations, Federal Funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program
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14 Mar 2019
What We Owe to Rachel Carson
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are looking back at some of the natural world’s greatest heroines. And perhaps there’s no one more deserving of that description than Rachel Carson. Back in 1962—before there was an Earth Day, or EPA, or even a Chesapeake Bay Foundation—Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring. The book that started it all, Spring is credited for launching the modern environmental movement.
Topics: Air Pollution, Climate Change, Earth Day
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01 Mar 2019
This Week in the Watershed: The Bulldozers Are Waiting
It’s a scene that’s far too common. A fleet of gas-guzzling bulldozers flatten acres of high-value, mature, and healthy forest. In a flash, decades, even centuries, of nature’s hard work is reduced to stumps and mud.
Topics: Advocate, Climate Change, Conservation, Events, Habitat Degradation, Land Use, Polluted Runoff, Sprawl, Sustainability, Trees, Water Quality, What We Have to Lose
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22 Feb 2019
This Week in the Watershed: The Bay's Cornerstone
Following decades of restoration work, we are making progress restoring the Bay's native oyster population. And two pieces of legislation before the Maryland General Assembly would take restoration efforts even further.
Topics: Advocate, Conservation, Eastern Oysters, Events, Fishing, Habitat Degradation, Politics, Restore, Sustainability
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15 Feb 2019
This Week in the Watershed: Exposing Our Values
There is perhaps no document more revealing than a budget.
Topics: Advocate, Agriculture, Conservation, Eastern Oysters, Polluted Runoff, Restore, Sustainability, Virginia's Agricultural Cost-Share Program, Virginia's Stormwater Local Assistance Fund
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08 Feb 2019
This Week in the Watershed: Forest Fervor
We are losing our forests at an alarming rate throughout the watershed.
Topics: Advocate, Conservation, Events, Habitat Degradation, Land Use, Politics, Polluted Runoff, Smart Growth, Sprawl, Sustainability, Trees, Water Quality, What We Have to Lose
What's Up in Pennsylvania
State and federal conservation programs provide critical funding and support to farmers who want to incorporate best management practices such as contour stripcropping (shown here), which keep valuable nutrients on farms and out of local streams and the Bay.
Tim McCabe/NRCS
