What's Up in Pennsylvania

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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: Advocacy, Restoration, The Susquehanna River, Volunteers

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Farmer Profiles: Dave Graybill

“You have to control the good things in your environment.”

Topics: Agriculture, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, Water Quality

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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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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: Advocacy, Climate Change, Conservation

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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, Women's History and the Bay

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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: Advocacy, Climate Change, Conservation, Habitat Loss, Land Use, Runoff Pollution, Sprawl, Trees, Water Quality, What We Have to Lose

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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: Advocacy, Conservation, Eastern Oysters, Fishing, Habitat Loss, Politics, Restoration

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This Week in the Watershed: Exposing Our Values

There is perhaps no document more revealing than a budget.

Topics: Advocacy, Agriculture, Conservation, Eastern Oysters, Runoff Pollution, Restoration, Virginia's Agricultural Cost-Share Program, Virginia's Stormwater Local Assistance Fund

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So, You're the Bay's Valentine?

This Valentine’s Day, show some love for your Bay-Bae!

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This Week in the Watershed: Forest Fervor

We are losing our forests at an alarming rate throughout the watershed.

Topics: Advocacy, Conservation, Habitat Loss, Land Use, Politics, Runoff Pollution, Smart Growth, Sprawl, Trees, Water Quality, What We Have to Lose