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

Breaking down the Chesapeake’s many diverse natural and historic sites

January 15, 2025

No matter the designation, there’s plenty of places to get outside in the watershed

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A National Park Service ranger looks out at a wetland full of lotuses.

Six Chesapeake traditions to enjoy during the holidays

December 13, 2024

Lighted boat parades, crab basket trees and more!

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Crab baskets with Christmas pictures painted on them.

Preserving Chesapeake culture with seed saving

December 8, 2023

How Southern Exposure is encouraging sustainable farming practices

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Ira is an elderly Black woman wearing a jean jacket and red bandana.

Witch stories from around the watershed

October 30, 2023

Chesapeake “witches” were healers, naturalists and nonconformists

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A new park in Delaware honors the ‘people of the tidewater’

February 23, 2022

Tidewater Park incorporates local culture and history into Laurel’s waterfront redevelopment

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The monarch butterfly is celebrated from the Bay to Mexico

October 15, 2021

Each fall monarchs travel from the Chesapeake region to Mexico where they are honored as part of Día de los Muertos.

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De-buzzing the latest environmental buzzword

September 8, 2021

Seeing “intersectionality” in action during my summer internship

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A beloved African American neighborhood navigates its economic and environmental future

August 26, 2021

A photo essay on Turner Station in Baltimore, Maryland

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Black history lives on in a mountain region just outside Washington D.C.

August 19, 2021

History interpreter gives a tour of the Bull Run Mountains

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Experts seek to bridge the gap between environmental quality and public health

September 25, 2020

Chesapeake Bay Program holds panel to address the need for inclusive, community-driven solutions

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