Governor O’Malley and the Maryland General Assembly have approved $5 million in State Waterway Improvement Funds and an additional $1 million in anticipated federal funds in the fiscal year 2010 Budget to improve public boating access and support boating safety … Continued
NOAA has announced the deployment of a new state-of-the-art research vessel, R/V Bay Hydro II, which will collect oceanographic data in the Chesapeake Bay region – data critical to safe navigation and environmental protection in the nation’s largest estuary. The … Continued
The Trust for Public Land’s Parks for People-Community Rivers program in Maryland is focused on the western Chesapeake Bay shoreline and tributaries of the four major river systems-the Gunpowder, Patuxent, Patapsco, and Potomac. Working with government agencies at the local, … Continued
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has launched an education and outreach campaign to inform the public about the threats posed by zebra mussels. More than 20 years ago zebra mussels were introduced into the Great Lakes in ship … Continued
Bay grasses, a favorite home to the blue crab, increased 20 percent in 2008 in Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The majority of the 7,221-acre increase resulted from a continued expansion on the Susquehanna Flats, home … Continued