http://www.bayjournal.com Chesapeake Bay related news en-us Copyright 2007 Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay http://backend.userland.com/rss Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST A year after the EPA put the Bay on a "pollution diet," states are providing new details about how they - and local governments - will curb the nutrient binge that transformed the Bay's once-clear water into a murky soup over the last 50 years. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4269 Karl Blankenship news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Imagine living in a neighborhood where people check the tide gauges to figure out where they should park their cars. A place where front yards sprout wetland plants and smell like marsh grass, where city leaders debate spending millions of dollars to raise yet another street, and where prospective homeowners consult computerized flood maps to determine if it's safe to buy a house. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4270 Rona Kobell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST A scientific review has offered advice about trying to plant large-scale underwater grass beds in the Chesapeake: Don't bother. At least not until the Bay's often-murky water gets clearer. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4271 Karl Blankenship news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST The EPA has issued a draft report confirming what many environmental groups have long suspected: Natural gas drilling is causing groundwater contamination. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4272 Rona Kobell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Imagine a thrillingly powerful sports car whose speedometer dominates the dash, obscuring gauges that warn of fuel guzzling, overheating, needed maintenance and pollution. Not to worry! If you run into any problems, just keep pushing on the accelerator, the car's designer says. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4273 Tom Horton news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Travelers across the 20-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel that connects Virginia's rural Eastern Shore with the urban center of Norfolk and Virginia Beach have an expansive view of the Chesapeake Bay - a view often heralded for its breadth and beauty. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4274 Karl Blankenship news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Bay states removed 11 dams in the Chesapeake watershed during the past year, opening 148 miles of river habitat to migratory fish, according to figures compiled by the Bay Program. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4275 Karl Blankenship news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Over the last few years, biologists monitoring small streams in Shenandoah National Park have observed something that is happening almost nowhere else - the number of eels is steadily growing. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4276 Karl Blankenship news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST While a pair of heavy-duty earth movers lumbered back and forth across the rocky stream bed of the South River like busy, destructive beavers, a hydraulic hammer chipped away at the old Rife-Loth Dam's moss-covered limestone walls. It was a symphony of metal scraping stone, only occasionally interrupted when the giant hammer stopped pulsing and the sound of rushing waters spilling over the old dam rose above the din. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4277 Beau Beasley news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST The American eel had been good to John Rorabeck. For decades, he guided his workboat along the rivers and lakes of Ontario, catching more than 400 eels a day with little difficulty. He sold everything he caught - and for good prices. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4278 Rona Kobell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST When a federal judge hears arguments in the so-called "chicken lawsuit" this April, it won't be just the chicken growers who will be paying attention. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4279 Rona Kobell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Two key players in the Chesapeake Bay's Riverkeeper movement have left the organization to start a legal advocacy project that will focus on industrial agriculture and natural gas drilling. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4280 Rona Kobell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST In 1958, Andrew Packett's parents bought a farm on the Northern Neck of Virginia. The decision defined the rest of their lives, and their son's life, too. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4281 Lara Lutz news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Business leaders, neighborhood activists and schoolchildren recently joined Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in unveiling a plan to clean up Baltimore's Inner Harbor. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4282 Rona Kobell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST It's time to welcome the New Year, which also means it's time for our winter break. This is a combined January-February issue to accommodate our 10-times-a-year printing schedule. We have some exciting projects planned for 2012, and we'll be starting to work on them. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4283 Karl Blankenship news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Standing on the edge of the Magothy River, I listened to a honking wedge of geese making their way toward the Eastern Shore. The crisp blue sky was empty except for the wisps of high clouds that confirmed the cold front that had come in overnight. There are more gulls than people out this time of morning. With wind gusts that are surprisingly cold, I think I know why. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4284 Al Todd news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Seasons in the Chesapeake Bay region are marked not just by colors in the landscape, but by movements in the sky. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4285 Lara Lutz news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST The December Past is Prologue focused on the bow, but where would the bow be without the arrow? http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4286 Dr. Kent Mountford news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Northern CopperheadPelicanRed FoxRed Spotted Newt http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4287 Kathleen Gaskell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Think that the Bay Buddies quiz is too easy? Try matching these youngsters with their adults. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4288 Kathleen Gaskell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST The snow showers were racing us to the river. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4289 Michael Burke news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST The starkness of winter offers each of us the opportunity to take a look at our impact on local and Chesapeake landscapes. More than 16 million people live in the watershed, and each can contribute to or reduce the amount of nutrients polluting local waterways and the Bay. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4290 Kathy Reshetiloff news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST For almost three decades, there has been a very concerted focus on cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay watershed. http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4292 Nick DiPasquale news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST Acorn Caterpillar Cheeper Cub Cygnet Eft Elver Fawn Fledgling Fiddlehead Fry Joey Kitten Nymph Polliwog Poult Pup Spat Squab Whirlybird http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4295 Kathleen Gaskell news@bayjournal.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:30 EST