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01 Mar 2019
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
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22 Feb 2019
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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15 Feb 2019
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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08 Feb 2019
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
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01 Feb 2019
This Week in the Watershed: Salty Solutions
As another polar vortex pays an unwelcome visit to our region, the salt trucks are out in full force. And the thousands of tons of salt spread on our roads and sidewalks can have harmful effects on the health of our rivers, streams, and the Chesapeake Bay.
Topics: Algal Blooms, Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Dead Zones
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30 Jan 2019
Runoff Fees Support Solutions to Local Pollution, Flooding
On behalf of the conservation community, I extend my sincerest apologies. Collectively we have failed you, the public, on communicating what science has shown us: that our stormwater infrastructure is failing and it's polluting the water we drink, fish and recreate in.
Topics: Community, Restoration, Trees, Water Quality
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25 Jan 2019
This Week in the Watershed: Charting Our Course
Our members are the lifeblood of everything we do. And now we want to hear from you.
Topics: Dead Zones, State of the Bay, Volunteers
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24 Jan 2019
Top Five Things You Always Wondered About Winter on the Chesapeake
It's the heart of winter—an unusual time on the Chesapeake of darker, shorter days, low tides, and blistery cold weather. But 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: Fun
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23 Jan 2019
What Does the Government Shutdown Mean for the Bay?
5 Things You Should Know.
Topics: Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, Politics, Runoff Pollution, 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