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
Current Column
Comeback of the American chestnut needs our help
By Cindy Ross
2012-05-15
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.
Recent Columns
Chesapeake Born
Hard charging waterman paints picture of a changing Chesapeake
Tom Horton
2012-05-08
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.
To know the bay, we need stories
Nina Beth Cardin
2012-05-01
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
Water v. Energy: The Marcellus Shale Saga
Tim Rowland
2012-04-24
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.