The U.S. Supreme Court in a major environmental decision on Thursday overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s definition of wetlands that fall under the agency’s jurisdiction, siding with an Idaho couple who’d said they should not be required to obtain federal permits to build on their property that lacked any navigable water. All nine justices agreed […]
Ecosystem Highlights
St. Michaels Water Quality Report Highlights Concerns and Commitment to Safe Water
The recently released Annual Drinking Water Quality Report for 2022 by the Town of St. Michaels has shed light on the water quality concerns and ... [Continue Story]
- Maryland Court finds County Erred in Waiving Forest Conservation Law
- Mid-Shore Ecosystem: Making the Case for a Plastic-Free Queen Anne’s County
- State Lawmakers want Local Governments to Prepare Climate Crisis Plans
- Maryland Approves Expansion of Eastern Shore Poultry Plant Despite Pollution History
- The Lakeside Reset Resolution Failure and the Future of Development: A Chat with Talbot Councilman Pete Lesher
- Hogan Pausing MD Participation in Multi-state Alliance for Strict Vehicle Emissions Standards
- It Actually Might Happen: Jim Lighthizer on a Chesapeake Bay National Recreation Area
- Our Debt to Naturalist Jan Reese by Matt LaMotte
- Mid-Shore Stewardship: ShoreRivers and Galena Elementary School
- Climate Funding could Suffer in the Farm bill under GOP Control of Congress
- MDE Gives Lakeside in Trappe a Limited Permit to Move Forward
- Oceanographer Mike Sieracki Joins UMCES as Horn Point Laboratory Director
Ecosystem Notes
Maryland Swim for Life Returns June 3
Previously held each September, this year’s Maryland Swim for Life on the Chester River has been scheduled for Saturday, June 3. Hosted by the ... [Continue Story]
- ShoreRivers Safe to Swim Weekend Report
- Something of the Marvelous Challenge Features Tour of Harleigh’s Magnificent Woodland Gardens
- Blackwater NWR to Hold Annual Youth Fishing Fun Day on June 3
- Spy Tip: Lydia Woolever on the Chesapeake Bay
- Swimmable ShoreRivers Program Returns, Expands Access to Results
- Take a Hike and See Springtime at Its Best on Bolingbroke Creek
- Pickering Creek Audubon Center June Public Programs
- Naturalist Andy Brown to Speak About Barn Owls in Maryland at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
- State of the Rivers Series Continues in May
- Allison Colden Named Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Maryland Executive Director
- Pickering Creek Audubon Center May Public Programs
- Science Saturday Workshop for High School Women
- Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center Offering Kayak Rentals
- Horn Point Lab Student Awarded the 9th Ryan Saba Memorial Student Fellowship
- Welcome Spring with Guided Birding at Blackwater NWR