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  1. Recent Stories

Restoration Spotlight

Explore recent restoration and conservation projects happening across the watershed.

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Chesapeake Stewardship Partnership News Current page: Restoration Spotlight Travel, Recreation and Culture Watershed Science Wildlife

Shenandoah County landowner turns a flooded farm field into a thriving wetland

November 24, 2025

Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley and other partners provide support along the way

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A man stands next to a river in wetland plants. Across the river, green grasses grow.

The decades-long effort to restore brook trout habitat in the Kettle Creek watershed

November 14, 2025

A network of local and national nonprofits restore and reconnect vital habitat

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Brook trout and other fish rest at the bottom of a gravely stream.

A 60-acre forestry project in Emmitsburg, Maryland inspires new tree plantings in the city

November 7, 2025

Stream Link Education partners with Mobilize Frederick

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Man stands by a recently planted tree in a field.

Preserving the lands and waters of Civil War battlefields in the Shenandoah Valley

October 31, 2025

Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation has protected 7,600 acres of land

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Two men with dogs walk through an opening in the fence line.

Building on a thriving, six-year-old forest buffer in the Rappahannock River headwaters

October 24, 2025

Friends of the Rappahannock leads an effort to plant forest buffers

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Green leaves poke out of a tree tube on a farm with other trees in the background.

An innovative farming practice gives shade to livestock and cools trout streams

October 10, 2025

Friends of the Rappahannock plant a silvopasture in Virginia

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Young tree pokes out of a tree tube with a larger tree in the background.

Eastern Shore park begins its transformation into a grassland bird refuge

September 29, 2025

Once slated for development, Oxford Conservation Park is open to the public

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Aerial view of park with trees and circular trail and river in the background.

Raising a stream to save the Severn River

August 13, 2025

Less than a year after restoration, wildlife is already returning to a resilient Jabez Branch

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A restoration professional looks out at a wide, slow-moving forest stream restored amid dense woods.

Horses and habitat thrive at Wyndham Oaks Farm

August 8, 2025

Nature is prioritized at a Montgomery County, Maryland horse boarding farm

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A horse bends down to eat grass behind a fence.

Shikellamy State Park establishes new fish passage on the Susquehanna

July 31, 2025

Dam detour allows migrating fish to return to their historic spawning grounds

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A constructed fish passage channel lined with stone arcs back toward the Susquehanna River

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