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  1. Recent Stories

Tagged Stories: "wetlands"

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

Chesapeake plants have deep roots in Indigenous knowledge

November 25, 2025

Rappahannock tribal chief shares her wisdom on native plants

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Wild rice plants grow densely, with tall yellow blooms above dark water.

Raising a stream to save the Severn River

August 13, 2025

Less than a year after restoration, wildlife is already returning to a resilient Jabez Branch

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A restoration professional looks out at a wide, slow-moving forest stream restored amid dense woods.

How one town is determined not to drown

June 10, 2024

Collaboration and local engagement aim to restore an Eastern Shore community

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Salt marsh wetlands eroding into the Bay.

Wetlands see a small but mighty increase across the Chesapeake watershed

January 22, 2024

New Chesapeake Bay Program tracking tool expands data collection

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Waterfowl floating on a wetland.

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.

Harnessing people power to restore Lafayette River wetlands

May 18, 2022

The Lafayette Wetland Partnership is a small but mighty community group

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Tracking the elusive tiger salamander on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

March 30, 2022

Vernal pool monitoring programs track the breeding activity of endangered tiger salamanders.

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Maximizing a short supply of black duck habitat

December 17, 2021

Chesapeake Bay Program launches a habitat vulnerability tool

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Sea level rise forces wetlands inland. But is there room for them?

May 25, 2021

New data sources help prioritize where wetland restoration and conservation should take place.

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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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