Warming water is threatening to undo decades of efforts aimed at improving aquatic habitat in the Chesapeake region, from headwater streams to…
Karl Blankenship
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Karl Blankenship is editor-at-large of the Bay Journal. You can reach him at kblankenship@bayjournal.com.
The Chesapeake Bay Commission, a panel that represents state legislators from across the Bay region, has named Anna Killius as its new executi…
The third time did not prove to be the charm for Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan, at least as far as the U.S. Environmental Protect…
Nicholas A. “Nick” DiPasquale, who as director of the Chesapeake Bay Program oversaw creation of the agreement that guides today’s restoration…
One early Pennsylvania settler from England was dismayed by his newfound home.
The Chesapeake Bay’s oxygen-starved “dead zone” was smaller than average this summer, meaning a larger area of the estuary was available for m…
A recreated logging camp at the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum includes this washing shed. Lumbermen, or “woodhicks,” were expected to do their la…
Lumber camps during the late 1800s, like this one reconstructed at the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, typically supported about 60 men, including…
A diorama at the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum shows a raft used in the early days of the timbering industry to transport logs downstream.