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At a carefully orchestrated and self- congratulatory annual meeting of the Chesapeake Executive Council in October, the U.S. Environmental Pro… Read StoryDon’t fall for the happy talk: Bay leaders have failed us

In November, I joined 20,000 others for the Bay Bridge Run, a once-a-year opportunity to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on foot. Read StoryTime for a 21st-century park for the Chesapeake Bay

Whenever we read a news article involving the interaction between different religious groups, it is difficult not to assume the worst. Tales o… Read StoryThe interfaith sweet spot for environmental stewardship

In a recent Bay Journal commentary imagining Delmarva without the thriving chicken community it now has, Brad Johnson makes a common but flawe… Read StoryThe false dichotomy of 'Big Chicken' versus family farms

The Supreme Court has once again waded into the debate over the reach of the Clean Water Act. How the courts rule could determine the fate of … Read StoryFor the sake of the Chesapeake Bay, ‘nonnavigable’ waters need protection

At least twice this summer, industrial menhaden harvester Omega Protein littered the beaches along Virginia’s Eastern Shore with Atlantic menh… Read StoryAction needed to curb menhaden ‘net spills,’ harvest

No one today questions that “Big Chicken” is the economic juggernaut of the Delmarva Peninsula. Read StoryBig Chicken on Delmarva, and the road not taken

In Sept. 1924, in response to substantial declines in the Chesapeake Bay blue crab harvest, the governors of Maryland and Virginia met to disc… Read StoryThe sad saga of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab

My understanding of restoring streams and rivers has experienced a major paradigm shift recently. Read StoryRe-wilding our streams to save the Chesapeake Bay

The waterfront at Conquest Preserve on the Corsica River in Queen Anne’s County, MD, includes a living shoreline that was built to withstand s… Read StorySuccessful shorelines require a sea change

Many years ago, marine biologist Roger Newell of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, now a professor emeritus, approx… Read StoryDo the math: Oysters can’t be the cure-all for a clean Chesapeake Bay

Kayaking is such a simple and therapeutic pleasure. Shallow waters abound in the Chesapeake Bay, and car roof racks attest to its popularity. … Read StoryThe skinny on shallow water: protected but vulnerable

As a third-grade student, I remember looking at the poster of the Chesapeake Bay that hung on my classroom wall while my teacher talked about … Read StoryCelebrate Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week

The climate crisis is intensifying. The most recent report out of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has outlined cl… Read StoryMaryland must stop pretending that poultry waste is clean energy

With all due respect to the songwriting genius of Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I don’t think the Beatles were thinking about natural su… Read StoryTo heal a landscape, ‘let it be’ worked for me

As we continue our crusade as stewards to conserve the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, it is impossible not to think of the 18 million peo… Read StorySustainable communities are key to environmental justice

There’s a good chance, if you use a gas-powered lawn mower, that maintaining your lawn is worse for the environment than your morning commute.… Read StoryElectrify your lawn care to help save the Chesapeake Bay

In all of the discussions of toll lanes for the American Legion Bridge, which carries Interstate 495 over the Potomac River west of Washington… Read StoryMaryland silent on recreational impacts of Potomac bridge project

It is no longer possible to reject the fact that Earth’s climate is warming and that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause. It must also b… Read StoryLessons from climate work apply to Bay restoration

The science has been clear for more than 35 years; we know what we need to do to restore the Chesapeake Bay. What’s clear today is that we are… Read StoryCleanup deadline is near, the Bay needs action now

As the Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort has continued to languish without any real progress, we keep hearing a familiar tune from Maryland’s farm… Read StoryEnough cheerleading. How about accountability?

A generation of Maryland farmers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have tried to meet two goals: produce the food our growing country needs and … Read StoryFarmers make progress for Bay, unlike development trends

As the 2022 session of the Maryland General Assembly gets under way, a coalition of environmentally minded lawmakers is expected to propose le… Read StoryLatinos support land conservation goal for the Bay watershed

In 1993, I began working at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, eager to make my mark. The attention-getting, prehistoric-looking Atlantic s… Read StoryAtlantic sturgeon: Not the ‘ghosts’ I once thought they were

I am an environmental outdoor education teacher in Kent County, MD. My teaching focuses on the human effort to live compatibly with nature’s d… Read StoryWhy we need an environmental rights amendment in Maryland

Climate change has been called an existential crisis, and rightly so. It is urgent and global — a fact that drew prominent world leaders and t… Read StoryIt’s time to stem the flood of woes brought on by climate change

The Maryland Park Service describes the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a driving route that meanders through 125 miles of countrys… Read Story'Virtually Unaltered': Harriet Tubman’s Eastern Shore

The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park is surrounded by the forests and marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which prot… Read StoryHow to turn your backyard into your personal state park

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 StoryRecognizing the shady side of shade

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 StoryLet’s choose nature over higher flood walls

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 StoryEPA picking up pace of Bay restoration

Chesapeake anglers and paddlers rejoice! In 2020, the Chesapeake Bay Program and its partners added 12 access points where the public can conn… Read StoryWelcome fall with these new ways to enjoy the water

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 StoryFarm funding is our best shot to reduce pollution in Chesapeake

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 StoryMaryland must do more to stop polluting overburdened communities

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 StoryJohn Warner: a Chesapeake champion remembered

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 StoryFarm sustainability goes retail

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 StoryShifts in underwater grasses impact humans as well as wildlife

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 StoryMilitary veterans constitute a new class of sustainable farmers

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 StoryHappy water trails, Allan Quant, you will be missed

Striped bass, also known as rockfish, are arguably the most economically important finfish on the Atlantic seaboard. According to a 2005 econo… Read StoryThe gradual and sudden decline of striped bass

Forested buffers along waterways could go a long way toward improving local water quality, mitigating climate change and saving the Chesapeake… Read StoryNew wave of streamside forest plantings needed now

I’m writing in response to the Bay Journal article, As chicken waste piles up on Delmarva, a ‘solution’ stirs controversy. Read StoryChicken industry works to manage nutrients, find solutions amidst consumer demand

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 StoryBay and Anacostia cleanups can each learn from the other

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend”  — Henri Bergson, French philosopher Read StoryLet ‘invasive’ plants do their job so the ‘natives’ can take over

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s State of the Bay Report came out in early January. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science… Read StoryBay Barometer tracks progress for 31 targeted outcomes

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 StoryBold action needed for striped bass

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 StoryAre we ‘me’ people or ‘we’ people?

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 StoryIt may be time to reconsider nuclear energy options

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 StoryBe realistic about biological benefits from stream projects

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 StoryBay loses a foundational science leader: tribute to Mike Kemp