This category has news about environmental issues that affect the Chesapeake Bay.
Maryland recently unveiled its Stream Restoration Challenge program. The Challenge is a new grant program through which the State and its partners plan to establish 1,000 acres of forested stream buffers by 2015. The program which is open to local … Continued
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and partners have released an analysis evaluating the pros and cons of keeping, improving or removing Bloede Dam and are looking for citizens to share their input. The possible removal of Bloede Dam … Continued
The Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP), with its coalition of partners, recently announced the start of their 2012 Chesapeake Bay oyster planting season and the first plantings aimed at fulfilling the goals of President Obama’s Executive Order to restore oyster habitat … Continued
Fifteen of the 37 creeks, rivers and sections of the Chesapeake Bay recently added to Maryland’s dirty water list are polluted because of runoff from urban and suburban areas, according to a review of the report by the Chesapeake Bay … Continued
State and Federal fisheries managers recently identified blue and flathead catfish of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed as invasive, non-native species, and have begun developing strategies to mitigate their impact. Blue catfish are native to the Mississippi River Valley and were … Continued