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

Dense forests in the Chesapeake watershed are home to eastern North America’s smallest owl species

January 3, 2022

Dense forests in the Chesapeake watershed are home to eastern North America’s smallest owl species

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Since before the Revolutionary War, agriculture has dominated Pennsylvania’s economy

June 3, 2021

A new report shows that despite a decline in farms, agriculture is still big business

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Magnolia bogs are a trove of rare wetlands species

May 20, 2021

Suitland Bog escaped development to offer a relic community of carnivorous plants

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A fresh perspective on revitalizing Maryland’s Eastern Shore

July 16, 2020

A young Eastern Shore native emerges as a leader in community enrichment

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Fireflies shed light on the benefits of a natural yard

July 9, 2020

As a sign of summer, fireflies light up the Chesapeake watershed

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Tiny crustaceans in their transient ponds

March 6, 2020

Fairy shrimp thrive in short-lived woodland wetlands

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Bringing back the eastern bluebird

October 1, 2019

How community action has sent a bird population soaring skyward

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The secretive eastern black rail is losing vital habitat

April 5, 2019

Development and climate change threaten marsh birds

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Searching for bog turtles in a disappearing habitat

July 9, 2018

Vanishing wetlands threaten these tiny turtles

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Fairylands and pollinators

May 7, 2018

The short lives of spring ephemeral flowers show larger connections

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