The Maryland “Becoming an Outdoors Woman” (BOW) program is now accepting registrations for its fall 2009 workshop. The fall workshop will be held at the Garrett County 4-H camp near Deep Creek Lake on October 23 through 25. BOW offers outdoor skills workshops in a relaxed environment specifically for women 18 years of age and [...]
Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff, with the help of more than a dozen students from across the state, tagged 50 new rockfish for prizes in the 2009 Maryland Fishing Challenge, The Search for Diamond Jim. The fifth annual Challenge – which also includes a citation component — kicked off June 1 and has [...]
Nearly 100 local leaders from across Maryland joined Governor Martin O’Malley and members of his cabinet in Ocean City today for the State’s June BayStat meeting. The Governor took the monthly meeting public for the first time to discuss Bay restoration actions and progress with attendees of the Maryland Municipal League’s annual summer conference, [...]
Members of the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance and the Lower Eastern Shore Tributary Team will host their annual Nanticoke River Wade-In on Saturday, June 27 from 10:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Cherry Park in Sharptown. Maryland citizens are invited to wade into the water of the Nanticoke River to demonstrate the level of visibility and [...]
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fisheries Service will hold a public meeting Monday June 22, 2009, at the Northeast Community Center to discuss the possibility of establishing new aquaculture enterprise zones (AEZs), which are areas of the Chesapeake Bay approved for raising of aquatic animals. At the meeting, DNR representatives will discuss the [...]
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is hosting the 2009 James River Sojourn. The Alliance is a regional non-profit organization that builds and fosters partnerships to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers.
The 2009 James River Sojourn is a five-day paddling expedition for families, outdoor enthusiasts and everyone interested in Virginia waterways. Special [...]
Maryland’s citizen oyster growing program has invited 12 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to coordinate oyster growing efforts in their local tributaries in 2009. Launched by Governor Martin O’Malley in September 2008, Marylanders Grow Oysters fosters stewardship of the Chesapeake Bay among citizens, and creates living oyster reef populations in protected sanctuaries to help restore the iconic [...]
Over the last year, 415 Maryland school children entered their artwork and poetry into the Maryland River of Words®, a contest that teaches the next generation about watersheds and our natural environment through the arts.
“Much of the poetry and artwork is about the Chesapeake Bay – clearly a source of inspiration for these talented young [...]
In response to recommendations of the majority of the members of Maryland’s Mute Swan Task Force, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will continue to reduce the Chesapeake Bay’s population of non-native mute swans. Because of the State’s successful control efforts, there are far fewer mute swans in Maryland today than there were a [...]
The State of Maryland will change the way it requires developers to prevent pollution at construction sites from running into local rivers and streams.
The changes were call for by a coalition of environmental groups represented by the University of Maryland Environmental Law Clinic.
The coalition, which includes Potomac Riverkeeper as well as 11 other Maryland Waterkeeper [...]
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