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News
Pace of dam removals accelerating across region
By Karl Blankenship
Dam breaches are a boon for shad, eels and other migratory fish which have declined in part because access to habitat has long been blocked.
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Features
Living on the Edge / A Delicate Balancing Act
By Tom Horton
Life loves the joints, intersections, overlaps and seams where land joins water, forest borders field, fields fall off to beaches and marshes, marshes to shallows, shallows to channels. In this essay from the recent book, "Chesapeake: Bay of Light," author and former Baltimore Sun columnist Tom Horton takes readers on a journey through these edges, and explains why they are special places upon which life itself depends.
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Chesapeake Bay Gateways
Travel articles highlighting sites along the National Park Service's Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network.
Adkins Arboretum transforms landscape into works of art
By Lara Lutz
Adkins Arboretum on Maryland's Eastern Shore provides visitors with a blend of nature and art in every season of the year.
Bay Naturalist
Explores wildlife and plants of the Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic region.
A world without pollinators is a world without plants
By Kathryn Reshetiloff
Both domesticated honey bees and wild pollinators are disappearing at an alarming rate. Why worry? Because, as Kathy Reshetiloff points out, 75 percent of our flowery plants rely on pollinators to reproduce.
On the Wing
Inspiration gained with a bird's eye view.
Predators and Prey: Gracefulness before meals
By Michael Burke
Three decades ago, the osprey was nearly gone. Now they're common, and as Michael Burke watches the graceful bird snatch its dinner from the water, he finds food for thought.