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  1. Recent Stories

Tagged Stories: "Delaware"

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

Bohemia River and its ties to a famous Chesapeake Bay mapmaker

September 11, 2024

The Bohemia River meanders through Md. and Del. before flowing to the Elk River.

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Elk River seen from above showing water and coastline lined with trees.

Twenty-five acre farm in Delaware begins its transition to a multi-habitat wetland

December 14, 2023

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Delaware Wild Lands restore a critical landscape

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Two men, wearing the same blue baseball hat, standing outside in a farm field. The older man speaks, gesturing with his hands. To his left, the younger man listens.

Anacostia River successes serve as backdrop for annual Executive Council meeting

October 20, 2023

Maryland Governor Wes Moore elected 2024 chair

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A photo of the 2023 Chesapeake Executive Council

Looking to the future, the Chesapeake Executive Council begins to set a plan to reach 2025

October 11, 2022

Annual meeting hears messages of inspiration amid recent mixed results of progress

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Administer Regan hits the gavel to end the Chesapeake Executive Council Meeting.

A forest with ties to Harriet Tubman gets over 2,000 new trees

September 27, 2022

Volunteers flocked to Delaware’s Blackbird State Forest to replant a historic area

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Volunteers gather to watch an instructor plant a tree

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 Pocomoke River adds a bit of bayou to the Chesapeake

February 11, 2022

The 73-mile-long Pocomoke River in Delaware and Maryland is the Chesapeake Bay’s easternmost tributary

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5 reasons to fall in love with autumn in the Chesapeake

October 8, 2021

From apple picking to fall foliage, the Bay watershed is fall-tastic!

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The Chesapeake Bay Program takes action on climate change

October 1, 2021

Partnership’s Executive Council sees climate impacts first-hand at annual meeting

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The Chesapeake Executive Council tackles the issues of 2020 in a virtual way

August 18, 2020

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam takes over as chair as Council adopts DEIJ statement

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