Save the Bay Blog May 2018

Photo of the Week: Bring It!

May 29, 2018

This blue crab was skirting the shore trying to find a way into the marshes.

The Original Clean the Bay Day Crew Reunites

May 24, 2018

On May 15, a small group of people concerned about the state of the Bay and its beaches reconvened for the first time in many years.

Naturally Sunkissed Farm: Making the World Wilder and More Flavorful

May 23, 2018

This couple has made it a priority in life to craft a wilder world by mimicking the natural processes of the earth in their farming techniques.

Photo of the Week: Wingspan

May 21, 2018

I was thrilled to catch this osprey spreading it's wings right before take off.

This Week in the Watershed: A Little Spark

May 18, 2018

When Robert Dean was planning the first Clean the Bay Day 29 years ago, his greatest worry was getting enough volunteers to leave the comfort of their homes on a Saturday morning to get dirty and tired picking up trash. But he underestimated the love Virginians have for their waterways.

Parachutes for the Planet: Aiming for a Livable Future

May 17, 2018

We have to be the promise for the planet.

Pennsylvania's Ambitious Antidote for Polluted Streams: 10 Million Trees

May 16, 2018

Larry Herr's contribution is modest: 50 to 75 new young trees, a biological buffer for Silver Creek, which babbles through 76 rolling acres of his farm in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

Sprouting Enthusiasm for Bay Conservation in the Classroom

May 15, 2018

Looking at a bucket full of gardening spades shouldn’t be exciting.

Photo of the Week: Life Doesn't Get Better Than This

May 14, 2018

This is Mother Nature at her best.

This Week in the Watershed: Threats and Resilience

May 11, 2018

Like the victim of Chinese water torture, the Chesapeake Bay seems afflicted by a constant stream of assaults, most of them man-made.

Centre County 7th-Graders Learn About Water Quality in Their Own Backyards and the Bay

May 10, 2018

It was a wet and wild day of outdoor learning at Fox Gap Rod & Gun Club in Centre County, 30 miles east of State College.

This Month on the Bay: A Mahogany Tide in May

May 9, 2018

Mahogany tides are natural occurrences, but a bloom as widespread and deep as the one that came this week is a serious reminder of how much we have overfertilized our waters with nitrogen and phosphorus.

In the Path of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

May 8, 2018

Water is life, and clean, abundant water is our right.

Photo of the Week: Headed Fishing

May 7, 2018

This Week in the Watershed: A Big Dam Problem

May 4, 2018

It's not often you can see water pollution from space. But a well-known image following Tropical Storm Lee in 2011 has a long, complicated story to tell.

Thirty Years of Stewardship

May 3, 2018

On a cold night in January 1989, I gathered 12 friends of mine together. Plastic bags, fishing line, cigarette butts, and heaps of other trash were defiling our waterways. And we wanted to do something about it.

A Good Tree to Lean On

May 2, 2018

As a couple, we have been members of Branch's Baptist Church in Richmond and active in the Spanish-speaking congregation for over a decade.

El que a Buen Árbol se Arrima, Buena Sombra le Cobija

May 2, 2018

Como pareja, hemos sido miembros de la Iglesia Bautista Branch's en Richmond y activos en el ministerio de habla hispana por más de una década.

A Powerful New Restoration Tool for the Bay

May 1, 2018

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–a key federal partner in the Chesapeake Bay Program–recently gave Capitol Hill a sneak peek at a unique and powerful new federal restoration tool that will be unveiled on May 31: the Chesapeake Bay Comprehensive Plan.