You can Own the Chesapeake without Property by Tom Horton
I grew up middle class but land rich: roaming hundreds of acres of woods and marsh, hunting properties owned by my dad’s poultry company and his best friend. And I always dreamed that someday I’d be wealthy enough to afford my own wonderful, big chunk of Chesapeake, a dream that receded after I chose newspapering over chicken moguldom. But there are a lot of ways to “own” land, as it has turned … [Read More...]
Ecosystem Highlights
Chesapeake Region Unlikely to Meet 2025 Bay Cleanup Goals, Unless it Picks up Pace
The Chesapeake Bay is getting healthier, but its recovery is “fragile” unless state and federal governments pick up the pace of their actions, … [Read More...]
- Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Population Remains Stable
- Environmental Concern Holds 18th Annual Spring Native Plant Sale
- Lake Bonnie’s Once-owner Wins Legal Point, Not Damages in Court
- C+ Grade for the Chester River
- Horn Point’s Chesapeake Champion Jerry Harris Takes a Bow
- The Best Kind of News: The Bay’s Underwater Grasses Surge Beyond 100,000 Acres for First Time in Ages
- A Chesapeake Portrait, Painted by Almost a Thousand Words by Tom Horton
- ShoreRivers Hosts “State of the Rivers” Series Across the Shore
- Bay Ecosystem: A Hunter and Conservationist Who is “Giving Back”
- New Federal Budget Does Not Contain Funds to Build Oyster Reefs in Maryland
Ecosystem Notes
ShoreRivers Honored with Prestigious Environmental Award
The Maryland League of Conservation Voters announced this week that it would honor ShoreRivers this year with its prestigious John V. Kabler Memorial … [Read More...]
- Graphite Drawings and Watercolors by Lee Boulay D’Zmura at Adkins Arboretum
- Outdoor Sculpture Invitational—Artists in Dialogue with Landscape at Adkins Arboretum
- OysterFutures Make Recommendations for Oyster Management in Choptank
- Learn the Art of Hoop Dancing June 10 at Adkins Arboretum
- Tour, Toast and Taste Promises Rare Glimpse Inside Lombardy Estate
- Young Environmental Stewards Summer Conference at Washington College
- CBEC Graduates Legacy Institute For The Environment
- Shore Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” at Adkins Arboretum
- ShoreRivers Hosts First Annual State of the Chester, Wye, and Eastern Bay
- Tour the Shore: ShoreRivers’ Guided Kayak Paddles
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Celebrates Spring with family-friendly LANDJAM Event
The Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (ESLC) proudly invites residents of all ages to its inaugural LANDJAM event – a family-friendly gathering held on … [Read More...]
ShoreRivers
ShoreRivers Honored with Prestigious Environmental Award
The Maryland League of Conservation Voters announced this week that it would honor ShoreRivers this year with its prestigious John V. Kabler Memorial … [Read More...]
- ShoreRivers Hosts First Annual State of the Chester, Wye, and Eastern Bay
- Tour the Shore: ShoreRivers’ Guided Kayak Paddles
- C+ Grade for the Chester River
- ShoreRivers Needs Some Help: Development and Event Coordinator Position Available
- Senator Van Hollen to Speak at Inaugural ShoreRivers Event April 20
- ShoreRivers seeks an Agricultural Specialist
- Op-Ed: Hydraulic Dredging for Clams on the Rise as is the Damage by Jeff Horstman
- The Art of the Merge with ShoreRivers Jeff Horstman
- ShoreRivers: The Shore’s Uncompromising Voice for Clean Rivers by Jeff Horstman and Isabel Junkin Hardesty
- Midshore Riverkeepers Receive Major Grant for Agricultural Conservation
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
CBF experiment: a large man-made oyster reef that revives the dead zone
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) today began a first-of-its kind experiment in Maryland: build and monitor a giant man-made oyster reef to test … [Read More...]
- Former Riverkeeper Tom Leigh to Help Eastern Shore Localities
- CBF Annual Photo Contest Gets Under Way
- CBF Notes: How About Home-Grown Oysters and Wine?
- Exelon’s Share for Mitigation on the Conowingo Dam by Tom Zolper
- “Most Important Fish in the Bay” Film at Library Oct. 23
- Diversity matters in this different kind of fishing tournament
- CBF on the Shore: Harris Creek Update and Rod and Reef Slam
- Op-Ed: The Good and Bad News on Oyster Restoration by CBF’s Tom Zolper
- Op-Ed: Why Cut a $73 Million Program that Provides Billions in Benefits? By Kim Coble
- CBF: Pennsylvania Still a Problem with Nitrogen in the Bay
WC Center for Environment & Society
Electric Car Chargers for Chestertown?
The Chestertown Council, at its meeting Monday, May 7, heard a report from the Chestertown Environmental Committee on the benefits of installing … [Read More...]
- C+ Grade for the Chester River
- Sink or Swim! — The Cardboard Boat Race
- $500K Grant to Center for Environment and Society
- Cardboard Boats Make a Splash!
- Wye River Upper School Partners with Center for Environment & Society to Monitor the Corsica River
- RiverArts and Center for Environment and Society Announce “RiverFest” September 26
