Bay Journal News Service syndicates Op-Ed columns, news and features on environmental issues affecting communities in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the Mid-Atlantic
The American chestnut once dominated the Eastern woodland. Nearly wiped out by a blight in the early half of the 20th century, the valuable tree has become the focus of a volunteer-driven restoration effort we all can join, writes Cindy Ross. Ross writes from Pennsylvania.
Larry Simns may be the best known waterman on Chesapeake Bay. Now he?s written a book that Tom Horton says helps gives us insights on the man, his town, and the Bay itself. Horton has written extensively about Chesapeake Bay. This column is one in a continuing monthly series.
Facts and figures don't persuade us to care or move us to action a much as stories do, writes Nina Beth Cardin. So it's time we find and tell the Chesapeake's great stories. Cardin, a Rabbi, writes from Baltimore.
To know the bay, we need stories
Drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale creates jobs and improves our national energy supply, but poses risks to the mid-Atlantic's aquifers and streams. It's a conflict that may last a long time, writes Tim Rowland. Rowland lives in western Maryland.