Healthy waters are dependent on healthy land. Healthy land is dependent on big, healthy forests. And healthy forests, in turn, depend not only… Read Story
The Clean Water Act is 45 years old this month, born in the U.S. Congress on October 18, 1972. Sometime before that day, the river of my child… Read Story
With justification, Americans are traditionally proud of their lawns and gardens. And this is nothing new. When George Washington was fighting… Read Story
I went out to the hazel wood, Read Story
The Shenandoah Valley’s Middle River, which begins its winding journey to the Chesapeake Bay in the farm country west of Staunton, Va., is one… Read Story
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. —John Muir Read Story
The oysters came up in the dredge like I hadn’t seen them in 50 years (and rarely even back then): huge and clumped together and bedecked with… Read Story
My neighbors probably think I’ve lost my mind. Where they have petunias and liriope and neat yards, I have what appear from a distance to be c… Read Story
As the National Park Service celebrates its centennial this year, we are also celebrating the 10th anniversary of a national park we have righ… Read Story
God bless the summer rainstorms. Read Story
Some days, you hit it right. I offer into evidence Tuesday, June 7, 2016. Towing a fine-mesh net for plankton in a Virginia inlet, our apparat… Read Story
If you walked alone and untutored through the tall pines, century-old oaks, big beeches and sweet gums of the forest, near where the Eastern S… Read Story
It’s beach season along the old Atlantic seaboard, drawing crowds of us inlanders east like our creeks and rivers. We’re heading for the Bay, … Read Story
It is getting embarrassing. As Maryland’s General Assembly drew to a close last month, the state’s Department of Natural Resources was once ag… Read Story
The Bay just got an important “win,” with Maryland’s agreement to end the spreading of poultry manure across sections of its Eastern Shore. Read Story
For decades, authors grounded in ecology and environmentalism have produced excellent — and widely ignored — forecasts of the end of economic … Read Story
In 1882, the Prospect House, a sprawling lodge overlooking a remote lake in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, became the first hotel in the wor… Read Story
The five-year court battle is over. The Supreme Court of the United States, by declining to hear the case, has affirmed two lower courts’ deci… Read Story
Last December in Paris, nearly 200 countries, including the United States, came together to proclaim with one voice that we can no longer buil… Read Story
Virginia, York River—We finished filming a movie about crabs the way we began it in the winter of 2015, with men and women of science on their… Read Story
The biggest development news in the Washington, D.C. area is the proposed consolidation of the FBI headquarters and its scattered satellite lo… Read Story
What will environmentalists be up to in 2016? Spur more carbon reductions, clean up the Bay, affect the vote? Read Story
I’m leery of assigning human feelings to other species; but it’s hard not to feel these are happy hens at Carole Morison’s Bird’s Eye View com… Read Story
I once read in a canoe magazine of a famously difficult passage in New England across 50 miles of open water. Most modern paddlers who tried i… Read Story
People around the globe are feeling betrayed by news of ExxonMobil’s 40-year costume party. Why we’re mad is a mystery. Read Story
Pines on the Severn, a small community on Chase Creek, off the Severn River just above Annapolis, recently completed a living shoreline, a pro… Read Story
What if they announced a new shopping mall and we all cheered because it would mean cleaner air, healthier water and more wildlife habitat? Read Story
When the Environmental Protection Agency published its recent draft report saying fracking is not a “widespread” hazard to drinking water, ind… Read Story
“This climate stuff makes me feel like crap,” a relative told me, tossing aside some ecology mail he wanted nothing to do with. “I'm tired of … Read Story
We’re taught the virtue of allowing cooler heads to prevail, but at times it might be wished that anger were preser vable. That it could be ca… Read Story
We are in the midst of the International Year of Soils. Who knew? Most will overlook the global event, but that would be a mistake. Soils dese… Read Story
Soil constitutes the foundation that supports plant and animal life on Earth. Consisting of broken-down rock and the remains of organisms that… Read Story
…. for the call of the running tide Read Story
“Well-managed” farmland and other working open spaces should not be taxed. These landscapes provide more services for the public than they rec… Read Story
Fishing on the Chesapeake Bay and its many rivers, creeks and streams is a cherished pastime for countless local residents. Whether a seasoned… Read Story
Once upon a time, in a galaxy not at all far away, “the facilities” were an outhouse 100 feet from the kitchen door. Time and population growt… Read Story
With Pennsylvania facing a wave of pipeline construction over the next several years, the natural gas industry, environmental groups and other… Read Story
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy acknowledged this week that Pennsylvania had not done enough to control pollution … Read Story
For decades, the National Aquarium has entertained millions of visitors while also teaching them about the need to conserve aquatic resources.… Read Story
Providing habitat for numerous species of wildlife is a critically important to keep the environment functioning properly. And, it’s absolutel… Read Story
Here’s a bargain. Give me 190 million acres of your national forest, and I’ll give it to industrial giants who can make a killing off it. Read Story
The Bay just got an important “win,” with Maryland’s agreement to end the spreading of poultry manure across sections of its Eastern Shore. Read Story
Tofu. That’s what most people think soybeans are grown for. But most soybeans in the United States are grown for oil and livestock feed. Read Story
After decades, my friend Mr. Crigger has abandoned his old foot-worn fishing spot along the river that bottoms our mountain watershed. Read Story
These days, gloom and doom seems to dominate my social media feeds. For example, did you know there is a Doomsday Clock? Monitored by the Bull… Read Story
“To live in right relation with natural conditions is one of the first lessons that a wise farmer, or any other wise man learns.” So wrote Lib… Read Story
We’re all familiar with the problem-solving technique of simply shifting the lens. Viewing the same thing differently. Glass “half full” inste… Read Story
March 22 is World Water Day. It’s the biggest splash you’ve never heard of. Why? Read Story
The Environmental Protection Agency’s beef with fossil fuels is well documented, so up until now, the 10 percent of Americans who heat their h… Read Story
This winter, an oil spill from a pipeline in Montana caused residents and businesses to replace their normal Yellowstone River water supply wi… Read Story