Save the Bay Blog May 2025

  • Baltimore Harbor Oyster Sanctuary Now Accepting New Tenants

    May 16, 2025

    Throughout the decade, students from the Baltimore Lab School have grown approximately 70,295 oysters in the Baltimore Harbor. That number includes over 11,500 oysters the kids planted one day in May.

  • The Trees That Never Were

    May 13, 2025

    Deanne Boyer's plan to plant trees and expand a streamside buffer on her farm would have had multiple benefits. But the federal government stepped in and then stepped out.

  • Dangers of a Drought

    May 5, 2025

    Like many others in Maryland, we've been enjoying what feels like clear blue skies and lush green trees each day this spring. In these pleasant conditions, it can be easy to overlook the fact that the majority of Maryland is actually in an extreme drought—nearly all of the state has been at least abnormally dry since fall of 2024

  • Upcoming Menhaden Management Meeting

    May 1, 2025

    A special Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) workgroup has completed a special report on the connection between osprey nest failures and falling menhaden harvests. What action will the Commission decide to take at its upcoming meeting?




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