Travel, Recreation and Culture

Original inhabitants of the Chesapeake Bay watershed remembered through their ancestral lands

A guided hike is held as part of the annual Chesapeake Watershed Forum at Bacon Ridge Natural Area in Crownsville, Md., on Nov. 2, 2021. Earl "Bud" Reaves, a forester with Anne Arundel County, helped point out unique features of the biodiversity and landscape of Bacon Ridge. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

Hispanic leaders working within the Chesapeake Bay region are diversifying the environmental industry

The 38-mile-long Passage Creek weaves in and out of a sheltered part of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

The Bohemia River meanders through Md. and Del. before flowing to the Elk River.

Muddy Creek meets the Susquehanna River north of the Conowingo Dam, shortly before it flows into the Chesapeake Bay.

A pandemic project turns into a personal journey to discover the Chesapeake

A project that has been in the making for decades is underway with newly acquired land

Adventuring LGBTQ has been active since the early 1979