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The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park is surrounded by the forests and marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which prot… Read Story

Several years ago when walking back to my car after a short visit to a park, I noticed that the steep, roughly 70-foot-high hillside bordering… Read Story

How we adapt our built infrastructure to the challenge of sea level rise is at the forefront of climate change discussions, especially in the … Read Story

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency serves a vital role as we coordinate the efforts of federal, state and local partners to protect and … Read Story

Chesapeake anglers and paddlers rejoice! In 2020, the Chesapeake Bay Program and its partners added 12 access points where the public can conn… Read Story

The best strategy for meeting the pollution reduction goals in the Chesapeake Bay’s Clean Water Blueprint (formally called the Bay’s total max… Read Story

If you live near a chemical plant in Maryland, you might assume the state is taking the necessary steps to ensure the facility’s operations ar… Read Story

The many recent tributes marking the passing of former U.S. Sen. John Warner are rightfully long on superlatives. Senator Warner has been desc… Read Story

June brings a lot of good things: cookouts, sunny weather, pool parties, ice cream. It also happens to be National Dairy Month, and the Allian… Read Story

Last year, I worked for the Chesapeake Conservation Corps, a team of young adults who gain environmental experience while working for a year a… Read Story

One Saturday morning, a group of trainees reported bright and early to a 6-acre property off the Potomac River. The participants had at least … Read Story

The region lost a champion for the Chesapeake Bay in November 2020, when Allan Quant of Lewisburg, PA, succumbed to cancer after a courageous,… Read Story

Striped bass, also known as rockfish, are arguably the most economically important finfish on the Atlantic seaboard. According to a 2005 econo… Read Story

Forested buffers along waterways could go a long way toward improving local water quality, mitigating climate change and saving the Chesapeake… Read Story

I’m writing in response to the Bay Journal article, As chicken waste piles up on Delmarva, a ‘solution’ stirs controversy. Read Story

In looking for lessons to apply to the cleanup of the Anacostia River, we need turn only to the nearby Chesapeake Bay. That restoration effort… Read Story

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend”  — Henri Bergson, French philosopher Read Story

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s State of the Bay Report came out in early January. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science… Read Story

It’s hard to find a Chesapeake Bay watershed resident whose eyes don’t light up at the mention of striped bass, or rockfish. Read Story

People say timing is everything, and perhaps they are correct. No matter how great an idea may be, it may be doomed if citizen attention is fo… Read Story

In his opinion column, “Where solar arrays shouldn’t go is as critical as where they do go” (December 2020), Lee Epstein of the Chesapeake Bay… Read Story

As a stream ecologist trained in the early 1980s, seeing the world of stream restoration evolve during the last 40 years has been exciting. Af… Read Story

When Mike Kemp arrived in the Chesapeake Bay region in the late 1970s, it was at the dawn of an era of discovery — one that the new Chesapeake… Read Story

Nearly a year into this global pandemic, Maryland’s school districts and families are still grappling with how to safely educate our students. Read Story

Solar power is coming to the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and it is past time to prepare. Read Story

The first step to fixing a problem is recognizing that you have one. Read Story

Tim Wheeler’s article, Stream restoration techniques draw pushback, spotlights some of the growing body of published research and citizen resi… Read Story

In our community on the banks of the Susquehanna River, doing our part to protect the Chesapeake Bay is ingrained in our way of life. We rely … Read Story

Virginians reading the Bay Journal’s recent article, Bird’s return to Hampton Road island defies expectations, celebrating recent efforts to a… Read Story

“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see en… Read Story

Partners in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are familiar with the monumental challenges of a pandemic that crosses every border and threatens our… Read Story

"Missed again?” That was the discouraging headline on the front page of the September Bay Journal. Karl Blankenship’s article explains that th… Read Story

Environmental injustice comes in many forms. Throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, there are stories of sewage backing up from city pipes i… Read Story

The coronavirus pandemic has focused our attention on the link between cleanliness and the avoidance of disease. People are sanitizing their h… Read Story

Last year at this time, our priorities for local governments were completely different from what they are now. 2020 has been a whirlwind of li… Read Story

“It’s no coincidence that ‘aspiration’ means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our tho… Read Story

After several years of lobbying on the part of the Sierra Club/Maryland Chapter as well as countless other environmental and civic groups, the… Read Story

Our access to the outdoors has a new meaning these days. With the spread of the novel coronavirus and the stay-at-home orders that followed, o… Read Story

In a show of solidarity unprecedented in the history of the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort, citizen groups, a county and four Bay jurisdict… Read Story

As part of the team that works with the fully electric “E-ferry” Ellen in Denmark, it was exciting for me to get requests from the Chesapeake … Read Story

The coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly every facet of life in the United States, including the workings of Congress. While legislators h… Read Story

Meat processing plants have been in the news recently because of the spread of the coronavirus among laborers, who frequently must work in clo… Read Story

Gerald Winegrad’s Bay Journal Forum piece, 36 years after first Bay Agreement, its restoration is still a pipe dream, (January-February 2020) … Read Story

You may not realize it, but the water we drink, shower and bathe with, as well as recreate in, was once stormwater. Read Story

Editor's note: On March 24, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy advised all hikers to postpone their hikes on the Appalachian Trail to avoid pot… Read Story

Most of us are deeply concerned by the recent news of dramatic changes involving the Amazon rainforest, Greenland ice sheets, loss of bird spe… Read Story

There’s no question Atlantic striped bass are in trouble. Stock assessments show the fish, known locally as rockfish, are being overfished, an… Read Story

Ever since the federal license allowing it to operate the Conowingo Dam expired in 2014, Exelon Corp. has fought updated permit requirements t… Read Story

December 9 marked the 36th anniversary of the signing of the first Bay Agreement at George Mason University in Virginia. Read Story

If you have ever been out on the Chesapeake Bay and seen a familiar flash of orange beneath the water, you might have thought your eyes were p… Read Story