Tagged Stories: "bay grasses"

This week's question came from Raymond, who asked, "Can I get eelgrass planted in Kingscote Creek at my cottage?

A USGS study suggests that underwater bay grasses in the Potomac River are increasing due to efforts to reduce nutrient pollution.

As Aldo Leopold and many other environmental writers have stressed, attachment to "special places" promotes environmental stewardship

My mission that day was to plant two species of grass on the eroding sandbar separating Hail Creek from the Chester River.

Mid-season monitoring of underwater bay grasses in Virginia's portion of the Chesapeake Bay is showing beds of eelgrass.

Underwater bay grasses increased by 18 percent in 2008 to cover 76,861 acres throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal rivers.

Over the past five years, the NOAA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have led innovative new research to increase bay grasses.

Since 2004, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MD-DNR) has been developing and applying large-scale bay grass restoration.

Bay-wide acreage of underwater bay grasses (SAV) decreased by 25 percent in 2006, dropping to 59,090 acres from 78,263 acres in 2005.

Underwater bay grass acreage increased by seven percent in 2005 to a total of 78,260 acres, according to data gathered by the Virginia Insti