When cleanup plans were set for the Chesapeake Bay watershed in 2014, the six states, including Virginia, and Washington D.C.

The Chesapeake National Recreation Area, ... The city recently received more than $300,000 in grant funding from The National Park Service’s Chesapeake Bay Office and Preservation Maryland to ...

As of 2022, data shows that 9.1 million acres of land in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is permanently protected from development. The acreage accounts for approximately 22 percent of the total land ...

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Shown is newly announced Big Elk Creek State Park near Landenberg, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. In Chester County, the new park will include 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) of Big Elk Creek, which ...

After a six-month comment period and draft legislation announced last fall, legislation was introduced to create a unified Chesapeake National Recreation Area. Bay watershed residents and ...

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed the Chesapeake National Recreation Area Act, a bill that would move some existing bay sites under the umbrella of the National Park Service.

When the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (CBPA) came to our region of waterfront living in 1988, it was met with a sort of grudging acceptance. Not many could disagree with its premise that ...

The Dorchester County native grew up fishing in the area, boating across the Honga River to the Chesapeake Bay to find redfish, sea trout, striped bass and other catch.

For 30 days, no one offered to buy this Chesapeake Bay lighthouse. Then the first bid came in. And a second. And soon there was a bidding war for a lighthouse that can’t be used as a home or ...

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