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Clean water and resilient landscapes, cared for by all the people who live, work, and play in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. That’s the Alliance’s vision, and we are working on another piece of the puzzle that makes that vision clearer: community-based stream monitoring.
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Last September, I completed the fourth and final leg of my 444-mile kayaking journey, from North Branch of the Susquehanna from Cooperstown, New York, to Havre de Grace, Maryland with my dad.
There are a lot of reasons you may want to install a rain garden. No matter what your reason, the design and installation of a rain garden should never prevent you from moving forward with one!
We’re knee deep in colorful fall foliage at this point, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Autumn is my favorite season, but it’s also associated with the next species in our invasive species series; autumn olive.
Last fall, the Alliance’s Annapolis headquarters moved across town. In the old space for 12 years, we accumulated a lot of stuff, and we decided it would be best to downsize.
On September 9th and 10th, the Alliance hosted approximately 50 students and 11 faculty members from Maryland and Washington, DC’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) at the inaugural HBCU/MSI Chesapeake Bay Summit. Each of these students woke up before the sun rose to converge on Pecometh Retreat Center, driven by one thing – a shared passion for the environment.
Growing anywhere from two to five feet tall, jewelweed is a natural remedy to poison ivy—if you can catch it quickly enough.
It was a beautiful summer morning when I pulled into an Amish dairy farm in Pennsylvania. After patiently waiting for an old farm dog to trot out of the driveway, I parked behind the barn and began setting up my camera gear.
To be a conscious consumer is to be aware of what you buy and use, and the impact it has on the world. It sounds simple enough, but the line from production to consumption is full of twists, turns, and knots.
Those spiky gumball-like seeds can look daunting, like a thousand medieval chain maces ready to strike those who wander too near.
