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  1. Recent Stories

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

Green infrastructure training for Hispanic landscape professionals kickstarts during Hispanic Heritage Month

October 7, 2024

EcoLatinos uses outreach and education tools to meet the needs of their community

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Purple flowers and green vegetation bloom during spring near a brick building.

Students from across the U.S. spend their summer advancing Bay restoration

August 15, 2024

Chesapeake Research Consortium expands diversity in the environmental field

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Flooded street with blue car driving through.

Hike leader looks back on one of the longest running LGBTQ outdoor groups in Washington, D.C.

June 28, 2024

Adventuring LGBTQ has been active since the early 1979

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Craig Howell rests his hand on a tree and looks upward.

2022 survey results show Bay Program partnership’s continued challenge to increase racial diversity

January 20, 2023

While the percentage of people of color rose slightly overall, the percentage in leadership fell as workgroup efforts achieved the highest response rates yet

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Taking steps toward equitable funding throughout the Chesapeake watershed

November 14, 2022

Advisory committee hears from community groups and funders at quarterly meeting

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City street in Baltimore City shows few trees.

Watershed protection runs on volunteers and stewards. What’s the best way to repay them?

October 12, 2022

Abel Olivo believes there’s a better way to engage community members

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Group of people fish off a pier.

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

Between two rivers, a city’s hopes are tied to healthy waters

September 15, 2022

The Clean Water Act revived the James and the Appomattox, allowing Hopewell to seek its own renewal

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A man fishes from the James River in Hopewell

Public comments sought on changes to Watershed Agreement language

August 4, 2022

Removal of the word “citizen” includes more people in Bay restoration

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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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