CBF's Save the Bay Blog features a range of informative, engaging, and hopeful stories about CBF, our work, and conservation issues of the moment. Read on!
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Save the Bay Newsletter: The Year’s Best
December 20, 2024
It is no surprise that all of our top stories of 2024 have something to do with the Bay’s extraordinary wildlife.
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Restoration Grants do Double for Delaware Town and Bay
December 19, 2024
Projects to fight stormwater runoff and shoreline erosion are all part of the bigger picture in Laurel, Delaware.
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Top Five Advocacy Wins for the Bay in 2024
December 17, 2024
Banning toxic pavement sealant in Virginia, requiring native plants along Pennsylvania highways, protecting trees in Maryland...We look back at what our clean water advocates accomplished across the watershed this year.
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Salmon in Maryland?
December 16, 2024
There are several factors to consider regarding AquaCon's proposed salmon farm in Cecil County, Maryland.
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Oyster Cities and Floating Farms
December 10, 2024
CBF’s Maryland Coastal Resource Scientist Julie Luecke imagines how oyster restoration, aquaculture, and coastal resilience efforts could forge a new symbiosis in the Chesapeake of the 21st century.
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Fierce Farmers on Film
December 6, 2024
The recent Firmly Planted film screening event honored Black women who are growing food and communities while inspiring others to preserve their heritage.
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'Get Real' When Considering a Christmas Tree
December 2, 2024
When considering a Christmas tree this holiday season, “getting real” helps the environment and local economy at the same time.
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Turning the Tide on the Chesapeake Bay: Giving Thanks for Pennsylvania’s Progress and a New Opportunity for Leadership
November 27, 2024
An unprecedented period of cooperation between two gubernatorial administrations, legislative leaders, farmers, local governments and countless volunteers is leading to cleaner water in Pennsylvania’s rivers and streams as well as the Chesapeake Bay.
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Bay Connection Helps Small Delaware Town Afford Big Redevelopment Plans
November 20, 2024
A plan that started as a way to introduce green infrastructure to reduce polluted runoff into local waterways has attracted residents, visitors, and local businesses.
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Megalodon Teeth and the Ancient Chesapeake Bay: An Interview with Dr. Stephen Godfrey
November 15, 2024
The Curator of Paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland talks with us about the marvelous stories fossils tell, what the Chesapeake region’s ancient past can teach us about its future, and the secrets yet to be discovered at Calvert Cliffs.
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A Surprising Spot to Learn at Sea
November 8, 2024
High school students who had been sailing off the Atlantic coast for weeks with the Sea Education Association made an unexpected but inspiring stop in Baltimore Harbor to learn with CBF.
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What Comes Next for Striped Bass?
November 5, 2024
As migrating striped bass prepare for their annual journey south from New England to their overwintering waters off the Mid-Atlantic, fishery managers are also considering big moves. In October, two major barometers of the population’s health were released. Neither painted a rosy picture.
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Save the Bay News: A Blue Crab Mystery, Striped Bass in Trouble, and Our Amazing Volunteers
October 24, 2024
This month, we’ve compiled highlights from our fall Save the Bay magazine, including stories on blue crabs, volunteers, and the future of the Bay partnership.
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The Watershed’s Grand Experiment
October 21, 2024
After 40 years at the cutting edge of environmental restoration, can the Chesapeake Bay Partnership again reinvent itself in time to save the Bay in the 21st Century?
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Choose to Make a Difference
October 18, 2024
CBF Maryland Oyster Restoration Coordinator Kellie Fiala shares her experience pursuing a career in the environment. Find out more about environmentally focused education.
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A Blue Crab Mystery
October 17, 2024
The population isn’t crashing, but it isn’t exactly thriving either. What’s going on?
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All for Clean Water
October 15, 2024
Our volunteers are the backbone of everything we do. From growing oysters to planting trees to speaking with legislators, CBF volunteers are committed to saving the Bay in any way they can. Take a look at these six individuals who tirelessly work to do their part for clean water. We're grateful for all they do.
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Save the Bay News: Voting for the Bay
September 27, 2024
Stories, resources, and other things you need to know to vote for the Bay
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The Bay Watershed's 11 Most Unexpected Places to Vote
September 24, 2024
What's it like to cast your vote at a whiskey distillery, nature center, or Pennsylvania Dutch Smorgasbord?
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All for an Oyster
September 18, 2024
This past year, CBF and our partners added millions of baby oysters into Chesapeake Bay waters. Take a look into their journey. You may be surprised the lengths we’ll go to, all for an oyster.
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This Is the Moment—To Think Big for the Chesapeake Bay
September 12, 2024
CBF President and CEO Hilary Harp Falk addresses why it's important the members of the Chesapeake Executive Council meet in December and recommit to a clean Bay.
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Counteract Screen Time with Outdoor Learning
September 9, 2024
Time and again, research shows that spending time outside boosts material learned, improves attention and focus, and strengthens social skills.
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Restoring a Spring on Family Land
September 6, 2024
Motivated by memories of the past and the desire to leave a legacy for the future, a West Virginia landowner's decision to restore a spring that starts on his family's farm has revived the brook trout population and made the water there and downstream cleaner in the present.
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Maryland Has a Clear Path for Cleaner Waterways
September 5, 2024
Progress and potential. That is how the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) described current Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts in its latest two-year milestone report. But with Maryland reporting 83 percent to 100 percent achievement toward its goals for nutrient and sediment pollution reduction, some might wonder—why aren’t we seeing more improvement in Bay water quality?
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Bringing Back Brook Trout
August 29, 2024
How restoring West Virginia's native brook trout also restores water quality, and the critical partnerships making this important work happen.
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