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Lighted boat parades, crab basket trees and more!

This skillful forager has trouble finding safe, undisturbed beach habitat

The fate of a species depends on saving its waterlogged habitat

How the Upper Susquehanna Coalition is increasing buffer acreage and community engagement

A number of solutions to the tree supply shortage are underway

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

Habitat pressure is impeding reproduction for the Bay’s signature fish

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)

This native bird was named after its distinctive call