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02 Mar 2018
This Week in the Watershed: An Oyster Moon Race
Bold, ambitious, and audacious goals are usually met with one of two reactions—incredulity or inspiration.
Topics: Advocacy, Conservation, Eastern Oysters, Fisheries, Restoration, Water Quality
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23 Feb 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Acting Out
To save the Bay, accepting the status quo is often not an option.
Topics: Advocacy, Atlantic Menhaden, Community, Conservation, Fisheries, Fishing, Water Quality
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19 Feb 2018
Top Five Things You Always Wondered About Bay Winters
Just how exactly do things change on the Bay during the winter season, and more importantly, why? Here are answers to some of those burning questions you’ve always had but never asked about wintertime on the Chesapeake.
Topics: About the Bay, Fisheries, Fun, Water Quality
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09 Feb 2018
Fast and Furious in Harrisburg, Annapolis, and Richmond
At the dawn of every new year, shortly after the ball drops and the confetti is swept away, our Bay saving efforts kick into another gear. With the new year comes the start of legislative sessions in Maryland and Virginia, and its continuation in Pennsylvania.
Topics: Advocacy, Air Pollution, Atlantic Menhaden, Bay Grasses, Blue Crabs, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Conservation, Fisheries, Insecticides: Chlorpyrifos, Politics, Runoff Pollution, Virginia's Stormwater Local Assistance Fund, Water Quality
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02 Feb 2018
This Week in the Watershed: Keep the Cap!
Ospreys soaring through the sky, dolphins jumping through the water, and rockfish on your dinner plate. What do these all have in common?
Topics: Advocacy, Atlantic Menhaden, Conservation, Fisheries, Fishing, Politics, Striped Bass (Rockfish), Water Quality
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29 Jan 2018
For Critters and Creeks, Salt is Bad Brew
Just like too much salt in your diet can be bad for your health, too much salt on our roads and sidewalks can be bad for the health of our rivers and streams.
Topics: Water Quality
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19 Jan 2018
This Week in the Watershed: A United Front
In our current polarized and fractured political sphere, it is extremely rare for a clear majority to agree on something. But across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, a diverse coalition is finding common ground on one topic–clean water.
Topics: Advocacy, Conservation, Politics, Water Quality
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12 Jan 2018
This Week in the Watershed: A Bay-Saving Momentum
Watch any sporting event long enough and eventually you’ll see an invisible but palpable force seize control of the game.
Topics: Conservation, Politics, Water Quality
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05 Jan 2018
This Week in the Watershed: An Unjustifiable Risk
Magic happens when fresh and salt water collide. Life explodes in estuaries, as they are some of the most productive ecosystems in the world. We witness this every day in the Chesapeake Bay, North America’s largest estuary.
Topics: Blue Crabs, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Conservation, Fisheries, Habitat Loss, Offshore Drilling, Water Quality
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28 Dec 2017
Return to the Bennett Farm
State and local elected and conservation officials converged on Toad Hollow Road in Susquehanna County bearing congratulations and keen interest in seeing the Bennett Farm for themselves.
Topics: Agriculture, Runoff Pollution, Restoration, The Susquehanna River, Water Quality
What's Up in Pennsylvania
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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