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The 2024-2025 Bay Barometer: A Defining Year for the Chesapeake

March 4, 2026

Record-setting restorations, major gains and remaining challenges: takeaways from this year’s report

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A gloved hand holds an open oyster that has eggs inside, along with a small fish. In the background are many oyster shells.

Black history revived at a historic Chesapeake Bay beach

July 2, 2024

A project that has been in the making for decades is underway with newly acquired land

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The sun sets over the water at Carr's-Elktonia beach. Three trees, a bench, a dock and a group of people are silhouetted against the sunset.

Building a 21st-century National Recreational Area

April 23, 2024

Taking action to provide public access to a "major part of the nation's heritage"

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Three women stop to take a photo along a boardwalk near a beach.

Near the birthplace of Frederick Douglass, a lush wetland park awaits

February 23, 2024

A fitting memorial to an American hero takes shape in Talbot County

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A slow-moving creek lined by threes and green wetlands.

New mapping tool shows underserved communities and their access (or lack thereof) to nature

February 23, 2023

A mission to chip away at the issue of green space inequity in the Chesapeake region

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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

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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Boats of the Chesapeake Bay

April 29, 2021

These iconic vessels trace the history of the nation’s largest estuary

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2019-2020 Bay Barometer shows an ecosystem in mixed recovery

April 6, 2021

The Chesapeake Bay Program releases annual assessment of Bay health

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Virginia seeks to retell the story of two segregated lakes

March 25, 2021

A group of hikers stumbled upon a Virginia park steeped in civil rights history

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